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Blended Families

Blending families can be a challenge, but Motherly’s got you covered. Find community and support from other mamas who’ve been there.

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Step-parent advice: 10 ways to strengthen your relationship with your step-children

Living as a blended family can be beautiful, but it can also be a difficult journey.

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The 3 most important things you can do to ease the transition of blending your family

Change is hard, even for adults. Now imagine being a child, and having your entire world turned upside down—here's how you can help.

dad and stepdad posing with daughter

These viral photos of a dad and stepdad are co-parenting #goals

David and Dylan made choices to cooperate instead of competing. To see each other not as the enemy, but as allies fighting for Willow's happiness. And those choices eventually made them friends and then family.

selfie of Miranda Kerr and Katy Perry

Katy Perry and Miranda Kerr’s co-parenting relationship sounds downright amazing

"We go on holidays together. We celebrate all the important milestones together," Kerr says of Perry. "I love her."

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10 ways to get past conflict with your co-parent

We have to accept that we're going to have differences—and learn how to create agreement.

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The scientific benefits of a father’s presence in their kid’s lives

Fathers are no longer just considered "babysitters" but active, equal partners in their child's life.

Rachel Bilson

Rachel Bilson says co-parenting with ex Hayden Christensen is a ‘work in progress’

"I don't know that there is any right way, necessarily," Bilson says. "She has that love that is unconditional so I think we're doing okay."

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