Stepfamilies

A necluear family is a kinship group in which a husband, a wife, and their children live together in one household. "The term nuclear family was developed in the western world to distinguish the family group consisting of parents and their children. This type of family was most popular in the 1950's and 1960's." The nuclear family can be a nurturing environment in which to raise children as long as there is love, time spent with children, emotional support, low stress, and a stable economic environment. In nuclear families, both adults are the biological or adoptive parents of their children. The only nuclear family that I have ever seen is between my grandmother, and grandfather on my fathers side. They were married in Haiti, came to American with their five children and they are still together. I know they had trials and tribulations but they made it.

A stepfamily is the family created when one or both partners in a marriage have a child or children from a previous relationship. I am part of a stepfamily so I can relate to this kind of family. My father married someone other than my mother. He has two children with my stepmother. I went to live with them when I was fifteen year old and it was vert interesting. I learned life lessons from my step mother. She was not too fond of me so we bumped heads ever often. My father would be put in the middle. When he chose a side it would cause problems but we got over it. Now that I am older I feel bad for being a brat. I was just tried to make her life miserable because my dad was not with my mom.

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