by Shirley Cress Dudley, MA LPCShirley@BlendedFamilyAdvice.comTwitter @BlendedFamily4Uphoto via stitcherGeneration X is the generation that has seen the most divorces and remarriages in their lifetime. Twenty years ago, it was rare for a family to be divorced. These...
Blended Families Bonded Families
In the 1978 mini-series The Young Pioneers, the character Molly, played by Linda Purl, hears a peculiar buzzing. She looks out across a field of corn in Dakota Territory and sees a wall of locust headed toward her. She and her children escape to shelter, but the swarm...
Jubilee
And when you're ready to leave it behind you You'll look back, and all that you'll see Is the wreckage and rust that you left in the dust On your way to the jubilee --from Mary Chapin Carpenter’s Jubilee Looking at a picture of my kids in their Easter blue, it’s hard...
The Latchkey Generation is Generation X
For the Latchkey Generation When happily ever after fails and we’ve been poisoned by these fairy tales The lawyers dwell on small details Since daddy had to fly-- Don Henley’s End of the Innocence, 1989 Generation X: The Latchkey Generation According to Douglas...
Family Court: Hell On Earth
There is a lot of hell on earth, I'm afraid. If you have yet to experience it, and want to explore the dark side, I have located a parcel. It is family court inside the Oklahoma County Courthouse. If Disneyland is the happiest place on earth, this is the saddest. In...