Blended Families

A blended family is a family in which a couple both have kids which are from when they were with a different person. Living in this situation is usually pretty tough on everybody. All the kids have to start living together, and the parents have to start taking care of more kids, unless the kids are old enough to be living on their own.

My roommate actually comes from a mixed family. He has one older sister, and his dad married his step mom who had a son of her own. It wasn't so bad for my roommate because this marriage happened when he was a senior in high school. Otherwise it would have been really tough living with new people. Its almost like having permanent guests at your house.

My friend doesn't get along with his new step mom very well. Their personalities clash all the time and they can never seem to agree on anything. This is probably due to the fact that they were living in different types of environments and when they are forced to live together, its not surprising that they don't get along. Luckily he gets along very well with his step brother. His step brother is much older. He is about 5 years older than my roommate.

I wouldn't be surprised if many blended families have problems with the children getting along. I could see the kids always getting in fights with each other over little things that normally wouldn't be an issue in the house, such as rules set by their previous parents or different things like that.

Well anyway thanks for taking the time to read this post.