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Blended families
This is when parents with children from a previous marriage or partner form a new relationship and come together as one blended new blended family. According to the ONS this is the fastest growing family type, increasing by 30% from 206,000 households in 2003 to 286,000 households in 2013.
Allan and crow (2001)
note that there has been little research or government policy into this type of family, which is partly because they present themselves as a 'normal nuclear family', and because they may be seen as a 'solution' to the so-called 'problem' of lone-parent families.
Stacy
In divorce extended families, members are connected by divorce rather than marriage, women maintain connection and work together across families, for example ex in-laws or former husbands new partners.
Evaluation of blended family type
Burgoyne and clark studied blended families and claimed that they suffer from problems which other family types don't, e.g. problems between siblings and problems co-parenting.
Usefulness of blended families….
only 31% end in divorce which is much less than the first marriage….
