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Fostering Kids: What No One Tells You About Foster Care

2020

Are you ready to be a foster parent? Foster care is not for the faint of heart because foster care children require extra love and care. The foster care system doesn't always prepare you for everything you need to know to get started. See more...

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Becoming a Stepparent

Becoming a stepparent by blending families or marrying someone with kids can be rewarding and fulfilling. If you've never had kids, you'll get the chance to share your life with a younger person and help to shape his or her character.

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Maia Noeder
2018
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17 Things I Wish I Knew Before Becoming a Stepmom

When things get tough, focus on your relationship. It'll get better.

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Laura T. Coffey
2019
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Life as a Stepmother is No Fairytale—I Feel Sorry for My Wife

The children are angry and vulnerable, the father sides with them out of guilt, and stepmothers are just expected to suck it all up

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Tim Lott
2015
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The Co-Parenting Handbook: Raising Well-Adjusted and Resilient Kids from Little Ones to Young Adults through Divorce or Separation

A valuable resource for parents who are transitioning from being married with children to co-parenting together, this handbook will help ensure kids and co-parents thrive.

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Karen Bonnell, Kristin Little (contributor)
2017
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Building Love Together in Blended Families: The 5 Love Languages and Becoming Stepfamily Smart

Blended families face unique challenges, and sadly, good intentions aren’t always enough. With so many complex relationships involved, all the normal rules for family life change, even how you apply something as simple as the five love languages.

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Gary Chapman, Ron L. Deal
2020
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Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tuesdays with Morrie comes Mitch Albom’s most personal story to date: An intimate and heartwarming memoir about what it means to be a family and the young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart.

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Mitch Albom
2019
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