06.06.07

Difficult Childhoods: Can We Trade in Our Parents?

Posted in Perspectives, Research About Stepfamilies at 11:27 am by Dawn Miller

The Washington Post’s “MyTime” column reported that in a California study, 75% of adults said that they had difficult childhoods. When a support group was asked what they would change about their lives – 20% of them said their parents!

Clearly, a lot of adults carry scars from their upbringing into adulthood. For many, those wounds are healed through new relationships as adults. But not everyone makes it - there are a few people who never recover from a difficult childhood and remain stuck in the muck of a bad past.

These findings serve as a warning to stepfamilies. Strive to do what is best for children, and help them grow up to be competent, and well-adjusted adults.

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