The Step-Parents' Parachute: The Four Cornerstones of Good Step-parenting
By (Author) Flora McEvedy
Little, Brown Book Group
Piatkus Books
1st September 2009
2nd July 2009
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Child care and upbringing: advice for parents
649.1024
Paperback
240
Width 126mm, Height 196mm, Spine 18mm
200g
In a society where 1 in 4 marriages now end in divorce, the traditional model of the nuclear family unit has radically changed. A startling 1 in 10 families in the UK (the statistics are double this in the US) grow up as part of a step family. Yet this phenomenon is still hopelessly unchartered territory, where the image of the wicked step-mother still presides.
Flora McEvedy could find nothing to help her when she became a step-mother at the age of 28 and the unique passion and energy of this book stems from her experiences. The Step-parents' Parachute will endow the reader with a body of instantly accumulated knowledge. Neatly organised, easy to use, practical and positive, this inspirational book will offer a path through a subject riven with negative assumptions and enable the transformation of the step-family into a happy, rewarding and stable family home.Flora McEvedy read History at Oxford University before completing a law degree. She was called to the Bar in 1997, practising family-based law. She is married and has two step-daughters, plus three children of her own.