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Different Ways of Raising Your Children | Parenting Around the World | Real Families

2018

How you raise your children is completely up to you, and how you discipline them can be different all around the world. Should smacking be illegal or does it depend on the child’s behaviour? What do you think? How involved are your family with raising your children?

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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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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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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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Hey, Wicked Stepmother, I Feel Your Pain!

How to stop hating yourself and your step-kid, as well.

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Jessica Schrader
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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Stepmonster: A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel, and Act the Way We Do

Half of all women in the United States will live with or marry a man with children.

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Wednesday Martin
2025
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No One’s the Bitch: A Ten-Step Plan for the Mother and Stepmother Relationship

Sad, but true: the divorced mom/stepmom relationship is typically one of the most contentious relationships in our modern families.

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Jennifer Newcomb Marine, Carol Marine
2025
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Our Children Are Growing Up Straddling Two Different Cultures—and It’s Not Always Easy

Our child is not just one of us. He is both of us. He is both our cultures. And as a family, we are both cultures together.

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Erinn Pages
2020
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A Child Raised by Many Mothers: What We Can Learn about Parenthood from an Indigenous Group in Brazil

The Kraho people believe a child should have more than one mother. It’s so ingrained in the culture that the Kraho children use the word “inxe” for both their biological mother and their mother’s sisters or the women their mother considers as sisters, even if they’re not related by blood.

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Sofia Perpetua
2019
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Culturally Specific Parenting Perspectives