Connecting blended families to professional resources to assist them with the common challenges blended families face.
It is Blended & Bonded’s mission to equip blended families with the information they need to become successful, bonded families.
Why We Exist:
- 41% of first marriages end in divorce. [1]
- 60% of second marriages end in divorce. [1]
- 73% of third marriages end in divorce. [1]
- 45% of women & 50% of men will remarry again within 5 years. [2]
- 50% of re-marriages involve children from prior marriages under the age of 18. [2]
- 2100 new blended families are started every day in the US. [3]
- 42% of adults have a steprelationship. This is either a stepparent, a step or half sibling or a stepchild. This translates to 95.5 million adults. [3]
- 16.5 million stepdads in the US. [3]
- 14 million stepmoms in the US. [3]
- Experts predict stepfamilies will be the most common type of family in the USA. [4]
- Because of a lack of information, stepfamilies often struggle along, isolated from support and information, or trying to fit a nuclear family model. [4]
