Remarriage Between Divorced People with Children from Previous Marriages: A Proposal for Preparation for Remarriage*

Messinger, Lillian

doi:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1976.tb00411.x

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“…The spouse lacking experience may expect to pool resources, whereas the other spouse expects to maintain separate resources for any number of reasons (e.g., valuing the financial independence gained between marriages, wanting to protect the new spouse from feeling financially responsible for stepchildren). Remarrieds may fail to discuss their expectations about money (Messinger, 1976), causing miscommunication about finances to be one factor in family dissatisfaction.…”

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confidence: 98%

The effects of financial management strategies on quality of family life in remarriage

1994

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ABSTRACT:A conceptualization of financial management behavior in remarriage forwarded by Fishman (1983) is refined and used to study 91 remarried couples. Couples are categorized into three financial management strategy groups: those having only joint accounts, only separate accounts, and a combination of joint and separate accounts. The different groups' demographic characteristics and satisfaction and happiness regarding family life are compared. Overall few differences between groups are found on the demographic characteristics, and no differences are found on satisfaction or happiness.

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The effects of financial management strategies on quality of family life in remarriage

1994

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“…Over the past couple decades stepfamily courses have been promoted and offered in an effort to assist stepfamilies in dealing with their unique needs (Messinger, 1976;Whitton et al, 2008). Today, these efforts continue (Stepfamily Education, n.d.; Robertson et al, 2006).…”

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Benefits of Stepfamily Education: One-Year Post-Program

Skogrand

Dansie

Higginbotham

et al. 2011

Marriage & Family Review

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“…Parents face changes such as moving house, loss of support from some friends and family, increased conflict with exspouse, and emotional upheaval (Messinger, 1976). Remarried families show higher levels of life changes and stress than first time married families (Bray, 1988;Waldren et al, 1990).…”

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Designing effective behavioral family interventions for stepfamilies

Lawton

Sanders

1994

Clinical Psychology Review

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'The terms stepfamilies and remarried families are used throughout this article to refer to both de facto and legally remarried unions containing a child or children from the previous relationship of at least one partner. ABSTRACTThere is growing evidence that children living in stepfamilies are at greater risk of developing behavior problems, particularly aggressive, antisocial behavior problems, than children living in intact two-parent families. These children are also at high risk of serious long-term consequences including school drop-out and substance abuse. Despite the existence of an effective technology for treating behaviorally disturbed children within traditional family contexts, no research has examined the efficacy of intervention programs designed for children with behavior problems living in stepfamilies. This article reviews the stepfamily research literature to identify factors contributing to child behavior problems in the remarried family context. An integrated model of the development and maintenance of child behavior problems in stepfamilies is developed. Key areas relevant to the treatment of problems in the stepfamily context are discussed. A behavioral family intervention addressing the skills deficits identified in the model is outlined. The implications for the design of stepfamily interventions and issues relevant to conducting effective therapy are highlighted. There is a clear need for future research in this area. In particular, it is recommended that controlled trials be conducted of interventions that specifically address factors known to contribute to child behavior problems in stepfamilies, and which use state of the art behavioral family intervention techniques.

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Remarriage Between Divorced People with Children from Previous Marriages: A Proposal for Preparation for Remarriage*

Cited by 98 publications

References 6 publications

The effects of financial management strategies on quality of family life in remarriage

The effects of financial management strategies on quality of family life in remarriage

Benefits of Stepfamily Education: One-Year Post-Program

Designing effective behavioral family interventions for stepfamilies

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