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About Co-Families
- As of the year 2000 there are more step-families than in-tact biological families.
- About 65% of remarriages involve children from a prior marriage and, thus, form step-families.
- Currently, there are roughly 35 million American step-families.
- More than 1300 step-families are forming every day.
- The average step-family consists of 60 members.
(* Statistical Sources: The Stepfamily Association of Illinois, Stepfamily
Association of America, Inc., The United States Census Bureau and Bumpass,
L.L. - Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, 1994)
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