Growing Up in Stepfamilies

by Gill Gorell Barnes and Paul Thompson

Book Overview

The growth of stepfamilies has been one of the most dramatic changes in British family life in recent decades. Britain today has the highest divorce rate in Europe, and by the early 1990s one in twelve children in Britain were already living in stepfamilies. Stepfamilies formed by remarriage after death were once a common experience, but in the first half of this century, as parental death became more unusual, they became unfamiliar rarities, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198280963
• ISBN13: 9780198280965
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"