Based on personal experience and expert insight, this book can help your new family learn to work and play together and to love and respect each other.

Discover the foundational building blocks to a faith based, healthy blended family. This study has been designed to engage families in all stages of marriage and remarriage, in a meaningful and realistic conversation of the challenges faced when blending complex families together. Each week, of this sixteen week study, we believe you will be challenged to think, grow and even change as God speaks to you about his vision for your family.

My Blended Family is an entertaining and colorful book intended to help adults explain the concept of blended families and how they work. There are two stories in this book, Weekend Visit and Birthday Party.

Blended families face challenges every day. This is a book that talks about real life experiences. It will give you hope that you can find peace and happiness in life and have a successful blended family. Written by a mother of three step children and three children of her own.

A Premarital Guide for Blended Family Couples If you want to enter a blended family marriage well, this is the book for you. Aimed at engaged or pre-engaged couples who have at least one child from a previous relationship, Preparing to Blend offers wise counsel on parenting, finances, establishing family identity, and daily routines for your new life together. Within these pages you will learn how to: · predict common issues · define expectations · create solutions You, your soon-to-be-spouse, and your children will benefit from exercises designed to accelerate family bonding and help you better understand each other. There is even a chapter to help you plan your wedding with your children in mind, so you can build a strong future together. Preparing to Blend is also an ideal premarital counseling tool for marriage coaches, mentors, and pastors wanting to prepare couples for complex blended family dynamics. If you are considering forming a blended family, Preparing to Blend is the resource you've been looking for.

Blending to Perfection is a book created to restore the image of blended families. It is a hard process, but blending is beautiful. This book has ingredients, tools, resources and a game plan to help sustain a healthy blended family. Blended to Perfection will recreate and restore the image of blending a family.

Origins We call this book on theoretical orientations and methodological strategies in family studies a sourcebook because it details the social and personal roots (i.e., sources) from which these orientations and strategies flow. Thus, an appropriate way to preface this book is to talk first of its roots, its beginnings. In the mid 1980s there emerged in some quarters the sense that it was time for family studies to take stock of itself. A goal was thus set to write a book that, like Janus, would face both backward and forward a book that would give readers both a perspec tive on the past and a map for the future. There were precedents for such a project: The Handbook of Marriage and the Family edited by Harold Christensen and published in 1964; the two Contemporary Theories about theFamily volumes edited by Wesley Burr, Reuben Hill, F. Ivan Nye, and Ira Reiss, published in 1979; and the Handbook of Marriage and the Family edited by Marvin Sussman and Suzanne Steinmetz, then in production.

Simple text and photographs present blended families, including how family members interact with one another.

"Learn how to create a loving and safe environment amidst the unique challenges of a blended family in this new book from Ron Deal and bestselling author of The 5 Love Languages®, Gary Chapman"--