Full Moon

 Here are a few good web sites that pertain to stepmoms. I have included excerpts from the sites below:

www.bonusfamilies.com
Bonus…It’s a Step in the Right Direction
Bonus Families® is the only international non-profit organization dedicated to promoting peaceful coexistence between divorced or separated parents and their combined families. Our goal? We’re here to support YOU. Now, that’s a real bonus…

www.childlessstepmoms.org
Welcome to Childless Stepmoms! We were founded in 2004 when in my frustration I began searching the web for information about stepmoms who don’t have biological (or adopted) children of their own. For the second time in my life I found myself the stepmom to three children. Experience was not making it any easier the second time. For one thing, the situations were very different. In the first situation my ex-husband did not have custody of his children. In this one, my two youngest stepchildren had just moved in with us after an eighteen month custody dispute. There had been a lot of parental alienation. The children had been lied to about us. We have very different values than their biological mother and the adjustment was difficult for all of us. My husband was overwhelmed. He began to ‘zone out’ abdicating all child related matters to me. I turned to the internet for information…

www.parentadvisor.net/msd.htm
It’s not at all an unusual problem but it’s still a painful one for everyone involved. Mom and Dad divorce because they can’t find a way to resolve conflicts caused by their different personalities and different ways for approaching the world. Dad remarries – this time to a woman more like himself. The kids come to stay every other weekend. Dad’s new wife is appalled by the kids’ wardrobes (or lack of them ), the kids’ manners (or lack of them ), and the kids’ interests (or lack of them). She sets out to help the kids by buying them different clothes, by insisting on table manners, and by demanding that they go out to play instead of watching TV. Mom won’t talk to StepMom, won’t send the new clothes back the next visiting weekend, and lets the kids know that she doesn’t think much of StepMom’s reforms. StepMom is annoyed with Dad for not backing her up. Dad withdraws into work or weekend sports and says there’s nothing he can do.

The Godly Stepmom

http://www.thegodlystepmom.com/about.html

Hello Friends! Welcome to our brand-new Website. Our organization is created by stepmoms for stepmoms so we can help each other through the challenges of stepparenting! We will support each other with prayers, conversations and new friendships. We hope you’ll join us! We are just getting started so be sure to introduce yourself in our forum

http://www.parentbooks.ca/Step_&_Blended%20Families.html

This site contains a bibliography of books pertaing to stepfamily life

http://www.dianefromme.com/index.html

Diane Fromme’s current book project, Stepparenting the Grieving Child, is an illuminating guidebook for stepparents exploring life with a child whose parent has died.  Whether the child has experienced mother-loss or father-loss, the death of a parent has a permanent effect on a child’s development.  When you mix the grieving experience with stepfamily dynamics, you stir up emotional turmoil that no family member expects.