reconstituted family

A reconstituted family is when the child will only be related to one parent.

Reconstituted families will become increasingly common but do not yet have a clear identity in British social life.

I guess you could call us a reconstituted family.

It has also been said that a reconstituted family is a family in which the parents are related.

She sums up the situation by saying that the reconstituted family is never the same as the biological family.

Reconstituted families are, therefore, of a different type.

Some children may be willing and glad to talk over beforehand the implications of forming a reconstituted family.

A quick check on the relationships can also avoid some embarrassing assumptions when there are now so many reconstituted families.

Reconstituted families are clearly different from the cereal-packet norm.

Reconstituted families involving stepchildren may try to approach the conventional norm if the parents decide to have children of their own.

The frequency of remarriage after divorce must mean that so-called reconstituted families have become an increasingly significant social phenomenon.

A reconstituted family is also a biological term for a family which has two mums and no dads.

A smaller proportion, 1 in 11 children under 16, live with a natural mother and stepfather in a reconstituted family formed by cohabitation or remarriage.

Ultimately the two grandmothers, Chinese and Irish, align themselves, a reconstituted family unit that achieves a harmony of nations on a small, human scale.

These features make the life of reconstituted families very complex; they cannot be seen as enclosed entities in the same way as cereal-packet nuclear families are.

Although some at the conference said they still do not like the word stepfamily, alternatives like "blended family" and "reconstituted family" drew even more criticism.

And her memoir "Generation Ex: Tales From the Second Wives Club" lays bare the tribulations of the reconstituted family.

Genograms allow the genealogist to graphically portray complex family trees that show marriages and divorces, reconstituted families, adoptions, strained relationships, family cohesion, etc.

A reconstituted family (also known as a blended family) is the sociological term for the joining of two adults via marriage, cohabitation or civil partnership, who have children from previous relationships.

Reconstituted families, formed by the remarriage of divorcees with children, are fairly common and may generate difficult and non-institutionalized relationships,(a) between step-parents and resident children, and (b) with the previous spouse and children.

Thanksgiving and the holidays usually mean an invasion of miscellaneous aunts, cousins, fragments of the reconstituted family and young freeloaders earning twice as much as you ever did who won't spring for a couple of nights at Motel 6.

Joined by Woody and Elaine, a potter and a weaver, and their two children, Norther and Roxy, Cedar's newly reconstituted family (which now includes a baby, Patina, nicknamed Roo) establishes a paradisiacal household.

A prenuptial stepfamily agreement might be signed to assure that future stepparents are aware of "the greater statistical risks of conflict, and particularly the greater challenges involved in child rearing, that are associated with reconstituted families," Dr. Emlen said.

A current term, 'reconstituted families'(Burgoyne and Clark, 1982), describing families where a new parent figure is incorporated, neatly encapsulates the concept of an evolving family unit whose nature is changed, rather than destroyed, by the arrivals and departures of various members.

The, the normal family of two point four children, or whatever, is not the normal family nowadays, you've got lone parent families, you've got step parent families, reconstituted families, policies and services should take account of all the different needs of those different sorts of families, and very complex lives they lead these days?