Top 10 Blended Family Statistics

1. 60% of all remarriages eventually end in legal divorce. 
2. About 75% of divorced persons eventually remarry.
3. About 43% of all marriages are remarriages for at least one of the adults.
4. About 65% of remarriages involve children from the prior marriage and form blended families.
5. 2/3rds of all women, and 37% of all children, are likely to spend some time in a stepfamily, using the more liberal definition that includes cohabiting adult couples.
   
6. Best estimates indicate that about 25% of current blended families are actually cohabiting couples. Estimates suggest that many children living in a "single parent household" (as designated by the Census Bureau) are actually living with two adults. 
   
7. One of three Americans is now a stepparent, a stepchild, a step sibling, or some other member of a blended family