Good evening everyone, I am really excited to be able to write again to you all today. I hope you all are enjoying the week so far, as I am posting this on a Friday I realize I a lot of things in my mind. As a college student it is currently finals week, which is a week of exams of all the comprehensive work from the entire semester. It has been very stressful. And all of my peers are in the same situation as I am to study for their final exams. But what I am able to do to have an escape to the finals is working out. For those of that don't know but I enjoy working out, it detoxes the stress and allows me to show progression from lifting. Everyone in the world should have an escape of stress, a fallback, it will be different from everyone. But it shows that we still are able to have joy even in the hardest of times.
Sorry for the little tangent I went there but it needed to be talked about. I hope you guys were able to enjoy the post from last week. But this week I wanted to dive into the world of blended families. If do not know what a blended family is when a single parent marries another single parent while having kids from both of the parties.
I decided to do some research on blended families and show you some statistics. According to the Pew research in 2021 sixteen percent of all children in America are in blended families. At least forty percent of families in the U.S. are blended families. And six in ten women that remarry create blended families.
So blended families are very common in our society. It is thanks to the single parents that still have hope and opportunity to find love again. Whether that love is for another partner of to help their kids have another parent figure in their lives.
It is scary, changing your entire life to have 2-5 new people in your life or living with come in just a night. Takes a while for a blended family to really find their identity. Some reports show that it can take blended families two years for them to find their identity and love for each other.
I am reminded of the comedy family movie "Blended". The mother Drew Barrymore with her two sons and other parent Adam Sandler with his three daughters, going on a trip to Africa bringing their children. But little does this couple is that they are going through a love and error process of coming together. But as the movie goes on Drew and Adam start to form relationships with each other's children, opening their hearts to each other. It is a process, attitudes have changed for each other. Service to each other was the motivator for each other to come together.
Letting all of you know that this will most likely my last blog entry surrounding the topic of the family. I have grown so much the past 13-14 weeks on my knowledge and maturity of the family. Blogging has helped me to grow and expand my horizons for what I know. I just want to say thank you to everyone for reading my blogs. Giving this kid from California a chance. But it has been a wild ride, thank you again for the love and support. If any of you have thoughts or opinions on the family, write a blog about it. Come out of your comfort zone and give it a try and share your opinions, what's the worst that can happen? Or even if you are passionate about any topic, give a blog a try, you never know the outreach that it can do. Thank you everyone, signing out!
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