Embrace your newfound identity Step one in becoming the best possible step-parent is acknowledging and accepting the complexities of your new identity as a step-parent. Whether or not you have ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am an RN-Attorney with significant experience in both professions. Sometimes money and the need to care for aging parents can ...

With divorce rates at about 50 percent and climbing, it isn’t really a shocker that one in three Americans are living the stepfamily and blended family experience. So, is this new family dynamic in ...

Gwyneth Paltrow may look like she has it together all the time, but she's just like the rest of us, at least when it comes to parenting — or really, step-parenting. If parenting is challenging (and we ...

I am a first-time mom in my early second trimester and due in December—peak flu season. My partner has two kids who come and stay at the house 50 percent of the time. They are great girls but get sick ...

I first met my step-father when I was five, and my brothers were eleven and thirteen. He was not my step-father back then, of course, and would not officially marry my mother for another seven years, ...

With divorce rates at about 50 percent and climbing, it isn’t really a shocker that one in three Americans are living the ...