Abstract

LOBO, Cristina. Stepfamilies: American research revisited (1930-2000). Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas [online]. 2005, n.48, pp.91-114. ISSN 0873-6529.

In the 1960s, as the divorce rate soared along with the number of remarriages as a proportion of total marriages, American social scientists began to get interested in remarriage and in children living with stepparents. However, from the 1930s through to the 1960s, there had already been a series of research projects into remarriage and the consequent model of family organization which such an event required, and the findings of these studies provided the starting point for a large amount of research. Over the course of almost a century of research, a great deal more was learned about step families: their demographical growth, structure, development and dynamics. In addition to the internal diversity of these configurations, all types of recomposed families shared specific and unique dynamics and structural characteristics, differentiating them from other types of family arrangements.

Keywords : Remarriage; recomposed families.

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