Guest Post: Gen-X and the Blended Family

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 families were in the minority...

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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 leaves the farm in utter...

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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 to...

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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 Coupland, author of Generation...

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