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Leave a comment - Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Relationships

Mended Blended Extended

The nuclear family of mother, father and 2.3 children is alive and well and living in a suburb near you. Next door to them is a family consisting of a single mother and one child, while mowing the lawn up the road is a 14-year old who lives with his grandparents under their guardianship. Across the road from him lives a latter-day Brady Bunch – a blend of two original families, and around the corner live two mothers and their toddler. Their neighbouring family is expandable. It has three foster children at the moment, but numbers change semi-regularly. In the 21st century, a family is what a family is.

Relationships can be the most rewarding, yet challenging, facet of our lives. Are you in a mended, blended or extended family situation? What have you learnt about getting on with others?



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  | 15/08/2009Back to the top 
We are a very mondern blended and mended family. The kids are grown up but both my partner and I have put a lot of effort into having good relations with our ex partners. We have family "do's" where both sides come. I have been known to have my tea with my partners ex wife sitting on the left and my ex husbands new wife sitting on the right. Makes for very interesting conversation!