When you're not the Brady Bunch: Identifying perceived conflicts and resolution strategies in stepfamilies

By M. Coleman, M. Fine, L. Ganong, K. J. Downs, N. Pauk. 2001

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‘Feeling Caught’ in Stepfamilies: Managing Boundary Turbulence through Appropriate Communication Privacy Rules (2003, background): “The structural complexity of stepfamilies, for instance, makes it so that privacy and space are limited (Coleman et al., 2001).”
“You're My Parent but You're Not”: Dialectical Tensions in Stepchildren's Perceptions About Communicating with the Nonresidential Parent (2006, background): “While interaction between the residential and nonresidential parent has the potential to be difficult after the divorce, things may grow worse after the addition of a stepparent to the family (Coleman, Fine, Ganong, Downs, & Pauk, 2001 ).”
Consequences of Parenting on Adolescent Outcomes (2014, background): “For example, researchers suggest that step-parents can sometimes lack parental legitimacy in the eyes of step-children [111]; therefore, step-children are more likely to resist the parenting efforts of step-fathers because they do not consider them to be legitimate parental figures.”