Making Adult Stepfamilies Work Strategies for the Whole Family When a Parent Marries Later in Life

'Making Adult Stepfamilies Work helps people navigate the changes and choices that come with a new family so that everyone can benefit!' -Spencer Johnson, author of Who Moved My Cheese? Step Wars or Step Love-the choice is yours! This book explores the conflicts and emotional dynamics set in motion when adults with grown children remarry later in life. Parents expect that remarrying will be easier because the children are grown up. But the reality is that these unions can cause painful struggles between parents and their adult children. Drs. Gabe and Lipman-Blumen reveal the sources of these conflicts and teaches the skills required to manage them. Topics covered include: - Your children and mine: Can they ever become ours? - Who should inherit my property? Managing financial conflict - Health and Illness: Thank heaven the caretaker is on duty - The Grandchildren: Pawns or bridges?

Grace Gabe, M.D., a graduate of Harvard and Boston University, practiced psychiatry and treated many adult stepfamilies in the Washington, D.C., area for three decades.  She has published her research in academic journals as well as popular magazines such as Psychology Today.
Jean Lipman-Blumen, Ph.D., is a graduate of Wellesley College and the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.  She is the author of more than sixty-five articles in academic journals and has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.  Her earlier book, The Connective Edge, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.