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Ultimate Stepfamily & Blended Family Statistics Guide

12/23/2013

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Ultimate Stepfamily & Blended Family Statistics Guide
NOTE: We found that Smart Stepfamilies had a lot of great data we could use and present in a clear fashion. Check out their site. 

How Many Stepfamilies Are There?

  • Approximately one-third of all weddings in America today form stepfamilies(demographic estimate, Deal). In 2001, 38% of all US marriages were remarriages for one or both partners (15% for both; 23% for one) (Wendy Manning, personal communication Jan 2010, National Center for Family and Marriage Research).
  • 40% of married couples with children (i.e., families) in the US are stepcouples (at least one partner had a child from a previous relationship before marriage). 
  • The percentage of all married couple households is 35%. (Karney, Garvan, & Thomas, 2003)
  • One of three Americans currently has a steprelationship of some kind and it is estimated that 50% will during their lifetime.  (Larson, 1992).

Misc Stepfamily Stats

  • More than a quarter of the people who remarry are over 50 years of age.
  • The divorce rate for remarried and stepfamily couples varies but is at least 60%. 
  • Children living with two married parents in the US have a higher risk of experiencing a family breakup than do children living with two unmarried parents in Sweden.
  • The more parental partnerships (transitions in and out of couple relationships) that children experience, the lower their over-all emotional, psychological, and academic well-being.
  • 10% of women in the US have had three or more marriages, divorces, or cohabiting partners...by age 35 (the next highest industrialized nation is Sweden at 4.5%).
  • By age 15, 29% of US children experience two or more mother partnerships (either marriage or cohabitation).
  • 16% of persons born after 1970 will marry, divorce, remarry, and redivorce (also see Cherlin, A.J. Marriage, divorce, remarriage. Rev. ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992).
  • Americans marry, divorce, and cohabit more than any Western society. They also start and stop relationships more quickly.
  • Second marriages (with or without children) have a 60% rate of divorce and 73% of third marriages end in divorce (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2006); at least two-thirds of stepfamily couples divorce (Hetherington, For Better for Worse: Divorce Reconsidered, 2002). 

35 Million Americans are Remarried!!! Yep. Lots.

There are 35 million Americans in the US today who are remarried (US Census, 2007).
  • There were 224,939,628 people in the US in 2004 (224.9 million).
  • At that time 12% of men & 13% of women (15 years old and over) were remarried twice.
  • An additional 3% of men and 3% of women were remarried three times.
  • Thus, 15% of men and 16% of women were remarried at least twice.
  • Therefore, of all men and women (age 15 and above) 15.5% were remarried at least twice which equals 34.9 million people (34,865,642 to be exact).

Stepfamilies Aren't Just From Divorce

  • A significant number of stepfamilies are preceded by an out-of-wedlock birth and a subsequent marriage (note: not a “remarriage”). When you consider that 40% of babies in America were born to an unwed mother according to a 2009 report by the National Center for Health Statistics revealed, you can see what happens when those mothers marry, that's a blended family.
  • In saying that, the highest number (around 90%) of stepfamilies are formed after one or both partners have experienced a divorce. 

Children of Divorce Often Divorce Themselves

  • Children whose parents have divorced are roughly 2X as likely to have their marriage end in divorce compared to their peers.
  • 66% of the increased risk in getting divorced comes from the actual divorce of their parents (Brian D’Onofrio, Indiana University Bloomington).

Stepfamilies Are Hard Work

In a study by Deal & Olson, The Remarriage Couple Checkup, Thomas Nelson, release date Jan 2009):
  • 78% of couples expected difficulties dealing with stepfamily issues
  • 75% expected children to put a strain on their marriage
  • 72% believed creating a stepfamily would stress their marriage 

The data supports their expectations
  • On average, couples in stepfamilies have 3X the amount of stress of couples in first marriages 
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