Blended Families

Book Title

Essays in Developmental Psychology

Author(s)

Brizel Trinidad, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Lisa K. Lashley, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Charles J. Golden, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow

Document Type

Essay

Publication Date

2020

Editors

Randall Summers, Charles Golden, Lisa Lashley, & Erica Ailes

Keywords

blended families, divorce, marriage, married relationship, Patricia Papernow, stereotypes

Description

Excerpt

Blended families are more common than ever. Recent statistics show that more than half of marriages end in divorce, with the eventual merge of two new families. The families go through several stages to create their new family structure. Several models resemble the integration of family members into the newly defined family. In 2001, Braithwaite and his colleagues identified five developmental pathways or trajectories that blended families followed as they become a family: accelerated, prolonged, stagnating, declining, and high-amplitude turbulent.

Additional Information

This is one in a collection of essays as part of a project that began as an encyclopedia of developmental psychology coordinated by Dr. Randall Summers. However, for unforeseen reasons, the publisher was no longer in a position to publish the encyclopedia. This project was undertaken so that thousands of hours of work by psychologists would not go wasted. Enjoy these essays and feel free to cite them using the proper format.

Submit suggestions for corrections and topics to goldench@nova.edu.

Disciplines

Psychology

NSUWorks Citation

Trinidad, B., Lashley, L. K., Golden, C. J. (2020). Blended Families. Essays in Developmental Psychology.
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_facbooks/659

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