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	<description>Stepfamily Blog by Syndicated Columnist &#038; Stepmother Dawn Miller</description>
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		<title>Seven Years to Blend? Yup!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reports about it taking seven years to blend a stepfamily are shockingly accurate. Stepmom Paula Bisacre writes in the Washington Times:
In our earlier years, stepparents with whom we spoke were in one of two camps. In the first camp were people just like us who were married for less than seven years and who wondered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thestepfamilylife.com/blog3/2009/07/21/seven-years-to-blend-yup/</link>
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		<title>FOE President &amp; Stepmother Speaks about the History of Mother&#8217;s Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fraternal Order of Eagles Grand Madam President Pat Durham has experience as a working stepmother from her marriage to a widower with three young boys. She understands the juggling act that mothers (and stepmothers) carry out everyday. Now she travels more than 300 days a year while maintaining relationships with her stepchildren and grandchildren.
The Fraternal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thestepfamilylife.com/blog3/2009/05/10/foe-president-stepmother-speaks-about-the-history-of-mothers-day/</link>
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		<title>Library Journal Offers Advice on Choosing Books about Stepfamilies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a great article in Library Journal this month designed to help librarians comb the book shelves and provide good resources to help today&#8217;s modern blended families.The author confronts the Brady Bunch myth head-on:
Yet a Brady Bunch nation we are not for two reasons: 1) most stepfamilies don&#8217;t have the luxury of a live-in cleaning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thestepfamilylife.com/blog3/2009/04/04/library-journal-offers-advice-on-choosing-books-about-stepfamilies/</link>
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		<title>Stepmom Profiles: Holly, a Stepmom, Mom, and Military Spouse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Military.com columnist Anita writes admiringly about her friend Holly, a stepmom who is also a military spouse. She makes some interesting observations. Anita writes:
The fact that Holly is a step-mom certainly doesn&#8217;t define who she is, but it has been an important part of her life and something that taught her a lot about herself [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thestepfamilylife.com/blog3/2009/03/18/stepmom-profiles-holly-a-stepmom-mom-and-military-spouse/</link>
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		<title>From Fabulously Single to Stepparent: Casting Call</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Casting call&#8230;.
Established non-fiction production company is casting all over the country for an OUTGOING, FUN family to be featured in their own series. Think &#8220;Jon &#038; Kate Plus Eight&#8230;&#8221;  We are looking for women about to transition from fabulous and single to STEPPARENT.
Are you about to become an instant family?  Are you a bit overwhelmed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thestepfamilylife.com/blog3/2009/02/12/from-fabulous-single-to-stepparent-casting-call/</link>
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		<title>Father&#8217;s Day: Remember the Stepdads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stepdads get a bad rap &#8211; and their contributions to raising children are often not noticed or appreciated. The Council on Contemporary Families issued a press release calling on Americans to acknowledge the contributions made by stepfathers to raising children.
Perhaps one of the biggest fears that crop up when a new stepfamily forms and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thestepfamilylife.com/blog3/2008/06/03/fathers-day-remember-the-stepdads/</link>
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		<title>Stepfamily Teens Don&#8217;t Do As Well in School, Says Study</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study by Florida State University researcher Kathryn Harker Tillman found that teens living with half-siblings and step-siblings, may not do as well in school as those living with only full siblings. The study was based on a nationally representative study of more than 11,000 youth in grades 7-12. United Press International reported:
Teens in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thestepfamilylife.com/blog3/2008/05/05/stepfamily-teens-dont-do-as-well-in-school-says-study/</link>
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		<title>Stepparents added to lawsuit against ABC Primetime for stepfamily story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[America watched in horror in 2006 on ABC Primetime as Kyle Nelson, then a teenager, was beaten by her stepfather and cheered on by her stepmother, in an expose called &#8220;Stepfamilies in Crisis.&#8221;
The show&#8217;s producers did nothing to stop the abuse, and the public outrage about ABC&#8217;s failure to protect Kyle, who was a minor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thestepfamilylife.com/blog3/2008/05/04/stepparents-added-to-lawsuit-against-abc-primetime-for-stepfamily-story/</link>
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		<title>More Tips to Help Blended Families</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Miami Herald reprinted some great tips from Don and Kathy Coryell to help blended families (with a few comments from me added in):
Make God the center of your family. &#8220;It has to start there,&#8221; Kathy said.
I think one challenge we faced in our marriage is that my husband became more religious after coming to know me. I had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thestepfamilylife.com/blog3/2008/03/27/more-tips-to-help-blended-families/</link>
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		<title>Stepfamily Scores New Home from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you watched ABC last night, then you saw the Turner family from Fairmont, West Virginia receive a new luxury house from the popular television show, &#8220;Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.&#8221; The full episode is posted on the ABC website for viewing if you missed it.
Mom and dad in the family are Angie and Richard Turner, who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thestepfamilylife.com/blog3/2008/03/10/stepfamily-scores-new-home-from-extreme-makeover-home-edition/</link>
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