ACCORDING TO THE U.S. CENSUS BUREAU:

  • About 50,000 persons per month become members of stepfamilies

  • 1 out of 4 children will live in a stepfamily before the age of 18

  • About 1,350,000 children will become members of a stepfamily this year:
    55% ~ because of remarriage after a divorce
    15% ~ because of remarriage after a spouse's death
    30% ~ when a never-married mother weds

  • 80% of all divorced Americans remarry and 60% of these will have children from a former marriage