Below is a selected bibliography on the subject of stepfamilies. It covers various different considerations of stepfamilies across many different topics. As stepfamilies are also sometimes called blended families or reconstituted families, it may be advisable to also have a look at bibliographies for those as well if you are researching this area.
Adler-Baeder, F., & Higginbotham, B. (2020). Efforts to design, implement, and evaluate community-based education for stepfamilies: Current knowledge and future directions. Family Relations, 69(3), 559-576. doi:10.1111/fare.12427
Allan, G., Crow, G., & Hawker, S. (2011). Analysing stepfamilies doi:10.1057/9780230308671_2
Allan, G., Crow, G., & Hawker, S. (2011). Stepfamily kinship doi:10.1057/9780230308671_7
Allan, G., Jamieson, L., & Morgan, D. (2011). Stepfamilies
Arat, E., Poortman, A., & van der Lippe, T. (2022). Parental involvement in stepfamilies: Biology, relationship type, residence, and gender. Journal of Marriage and Family, 84(3), 773-790. doi:10.1111/jomf.12817
Arat, E., Voorpostel, M., & Bernardi, L. (2023). Interdependency of relationships in stepfamilies – variation across residence arrangements. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, doi:10.1177/02654075231185342
Atalaia, S. (2019). Parenting in stepfamilies: Revisiting the stepfather’s role. Families, Relationships and Societies, 8(3), 379-394. doi:10.1332/204674318X15262009868378
Ayittey, R. E., Salifu Yendork, J., Oti-Boadi, M., & Oppong Asante, K. (2022). Experiences of adolescent stepchildren in the stepfamily context in ghana: A qualitative exploratory study. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, 63(6), 422-440. doi:10.1080/10502556.2022.2106814
Balachandran, L., & Jean Yeung, W. (2020). Old bonds, new ties: Contextualizing family transitions in re-partnerships, remarriage and stepfamilies in asia*. Journal of Family Issues, 41(7), 879-890. doi:10.1177/0192513X20918428
Bar-Hava, G., & Pryor, J. (2017). Cinderella’s challenge – adjustment to stepfamilies in the 1990s. Parents and children (pp. 495-517) doi:10.4324/9781315247359-41
Bean, R. C., Ledermann, T., Higginbotham, B. J., & Galliher, R. V. (2021). Adjustment difficulties and marital stability in remarriages: The role of stepfamily constellation. Marriage and Family Review, 57(8), 721-740. doi:10.1080/01494929.2021.1958123
Becker, N. (2021). Young ultra-orthodox Men’s experiences in stepfamilies of divorced parents. Marriage and Family Review, 57(3), 220-242. doi:10.1080/01494929.2020.1847234
Beckmeyer, J. J., Su-Russell, C., & Russell, L. T. (2020). Family management practices and positive youth development in stepfamilies and single-mother families. Family Relations, 69(1), 92-108. doi:10.1111/fare.12412
Bergeson, C., Bermea, A., Bible, J., Matera, K., van Eeden-Moorefield, B., & Jushak, M. (2020). Pathways to successful queer stepfamily formation. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 16(4), 368-384. doi:10.1080/1550428X.2019.1673866
Bermea, A. M., van Eeden-Moorefield, B., & Bible, J. (2020). Perceived boundary negotiations with former partners among queer stepfamilies. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, doi:10.1037/sgd0000370
Bermea, A. M., van Eeden-Moorefield, B., Bible, J., & Petren, R. E. (2019). Undoing normativities and creating family: A queer Stepfamily’s experience. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 15(4), 357-372. doi:10.1080/1550428X.2018.1521760
Bible, J., Lardier, D. T., Perrone, F., & van Eeden-Moorefield, B. (2022). Stepfamily involvement in and out of school and (step)children’s college preparation behaviors: A latent cluster analysis. Journal of Family Issues, 43(3), 659-678. doi:10.1177/0192513X21993874
Bildtgård, T., & Öberg, P. (2022). Blood thicker than water? emotional closeness between older parents and adult children in stepfamilies. Journal of Family Studies, 28(2), 493-510. doi:10.1080/13229400.2020.1735485
Blyaert, L., Van Parys, H., De Mol, J., & Buysse, A. (2016). Like a parent and a friend, but not the father: A qualitative study of stepfathers’ experiences in the stepfamily. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 37(1), 119-132. doi:10.1002/anzf.1138
Braithwaite, D. O., & Schrodt, P. (2012). Stepfamily communication. The routledge handbook of family communication (pp. 161-175) doi:10.4324/9780203848166
Browning, S. W. (2017). Stepfamilies: Case study. Contemporary families at the nexus of research and practice (pp. 49-50) doi:10.4324/9781315668598
Cann-Milland, S., Mornane, A., & Southcott, J. (2021). Exploring family service providers perceptions of working with recoupled parents in stepfamilies. Journal of Family Issues, 42(9), 1981-1997. doi:10.1177/0192513X20959109
Cartwright, C. (2010). Preparing to repartner and live in a stepfamily: An exploratory investigation. Journal of Family Studies, 16(3), 237-250. doi:10.5172/jfs.16.3.237
Cartwright, C. (2012). The challenges of being a mother in a stepfamily. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, 53(6), 503-513. doi:10.1080/10502556.2012.682904
Cartwright, C., & Gibson, K. (2013). The effects of co-parenting relationships with ex-spouses on couples in step-families. Family Matters, 92, 18-28.
Castrén, A., & Widmer, E. D. (2015). Insiders and outsiders in stepfamilies: Adults’ and children’s views on family boundaries. Current Sociology, 63(1), 35-56. doi:10.1177/0011392114551650
Cauley, K. C. (2012). Triangles in stepfamilies. Triangles: Bowen family systems theory perspectives (pp. 291-309) doi:10.4324/9780203836262
Clementi, S. (2020). Families under tension: Wealth arrangements in noble stepfamilies in the early modern period. Quaderni Storici, 55(3), 733-756. doi:10.1408/100608
Clementsson, B. (2022). Changing patterns of hierarchy within swedish stepfamilies in the late 1700s. History of the Family, 27(3), 546-574. doi:10.1080/1081602X.2021.2003842
Coleman, M., Ganong, L., Russell, L., & Frye-Cox, N. (2015). Stepchildren’s views about former step-relationships following stepfamily dissolution. Journal of Marriage and Family, 77(3), 775-790. doi:10.1111/jomf.12182
Coleman, M., Ganong, L., & Russell, L. T. (2013). Resilience in stepfamilies. Handbook of family resilience (pp. 85-103) doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-3917-2_6
Crapo, J. S., Turner, J. J., Bradford, K., & Higginbotham, B. J. (2023). An actor-partner interdependence model of parenting difficulties over time in stepfamilies. Family Process, 62(2), 653-670. doi:10.1111/famp.12786
de Leeuw, S. G., & Kalmijn, M. (2020). The intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status in stepfamilies: What happens if two fathers are involved in the transmission process? Journal of Marriage and Family, 82(2), 657-674. doi:10.1111/jomf.12610
De Leeuw, S. G., Kalmijn, M., & Van Gaalen, R. (2022). The dilution of parents’ nonmaterial resources in stepfamilies: The role of complex sibling configurations in parental involvement. Social Forces, 100(4), 1671-1695. doi:10.1093/sf/soab088
De Matos, P. T., & Paiva, D. (2022). Remarriage and stepfamilies in the ‘Western islands’ of europe: The rural azores of portugal in the 18th and 19th centuries. History of the Family, 27(3), 493-520. doi:10.1080/1081602X.2022.2103167
DeGreeff, B. L., & Platt, C. A. (2016). Green-eyed (step)monsters: Parental figures’ perceptions of jealousy in the stepfamily. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, 57(2), 112-132. doi:10.1080/10502556.2015.1127876
Egginton, B. R., Holmes, E. K., James, S. C., & Hawkins, A. J. (2021). The power of three: A latent class analysis of the three Parent–Child relationships in stepfamilies and their influence on emerging adult outcomes. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, 62(5), 374-397. doi:10.1080/10502556.2021.1871841
Erdélyi, G. (2021). Inheritance and emotions: Performing the patriarch in an aristocratic stepfamily in seventeenth-century habsburg hungary. Journal of Family History, 46(3), 298-315. doi:10.1177/0363199020948101
Favez, N., Widmer, E. D., Doan, M., & Tissot, H. (2015). Coparenting in stepfamilies: Maternal promotion of family cohesiveness with partner and with father. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 24(11), 3268-3278. doi:10.1007/s10826-015-0130-x
Favez, N., Widmer, E. D., Frascarolo, F., & Doan, M. (2019). Mother-stepfather coparenting in stepfamilies as predictor of child adjustment. Family Process, 58(2), 446-462. doi:10.1111/famp.12360
Fredriksen-Goldsen, K. I., & Erera, P. I. (2013). Lesbian-headed stepfamilies. Sexual minorities: Discrimination, challenges, and development in america (pp. 171-188) doi:10.4324/9781315865485
Ganong, L., & Coleman, M. (2018). Studying stepfamilies: Four eras of family scholarship. Family Process, 57(1), 7-24. doi:10.1111/famp.12307
Ganong, L., Coleman, M., Sanner, C., & Berkley, S. (2022). Childrearing in stepfamilies: Empirical answers about “what works”. Family Relations, 71(3), 876-883. doi:10.1111/fare.12634
Ganong, L., Coleman, M., Sanner, C., & Berkley, S. (2022). Summary and synthesis of research on what works in stepfamily childrearing. Family Relations, 71(3), 935-952. doi:10.1111/fare.12674
Ganong, L., Jensen, T., Sanner, C., Russell, L., Coleman, M., & Chapman, A. (2019). Linking stepfamily functioning, marital quality, and steprelationship quality. Family Relations, 68(4), 469-483. doi:10.1111/fare.12380
Ganong, L., Sanner, C., Berkley, S., & Coleman, M. (2022). Effective coparenting in stepfamilies: Empirical evidence of what works. Family Relations, 71(3), 918-934. doi:10.1111/fare.12607
Ganong, L. H., & Coleman, M. (2010). Reciprocity in intergenerational relationships in stepfamilies. Ageing and intergenerational relations: Family reciprocity from a global perspective (pp. 129-148).
Ganong, L. H., & Sanner, C. (2023). Stepfamily roles, relationships, and dynamics: A review of stepfamily typologies. Journal of Child and Family Studies, doi:10.1007/s10826-023-02558-4
Gates, A. L. (2019). Stepmothers’ coparenting experience with the mother in joint custody stepfamilies. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, 60(4), 253-269. doi:10.1080/10502556.2018.1488124
Gath, M. E. (2022). Parents and adolescents in stepfamilies: Longitudinal links to physical health, psychological distress, and stress. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 31(1), 17-28. doi:10.1007/s10826-021-02078-z
George, C. M., & Fernandez, M. S. (2014). A case study of a stepfamily’s relationship experiences before and after the death of a custodial biological parent. The Family Journal, 22(2), 258-264. doi:10.1177/1066480713513556
Gold, J. M. (2017). Honoring the experiences of gay stepfamilies: An unnoticed population. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, 58(2), 126-133. doi:10.1080/10502556.2016.1268020
Gold, J. M. (2015). Intergenerational attachments in stepfamilies: Facilitating the role of the step-grandparents. The Family Journal, 23(2), 194-200. doi:10.1177/1066480715572979
Gold, J. M. (2016). Understanding the experiences of husbands in step-couples: Implications for strengthening stepfamily marriages. Family Journal, 24(4), 415-419. doi:10.1177/1066480716663496
Gosselin, J., & Gosselin, N. (2016). Women’s maternal experiences in canadian stepfamilies: An exploratory study. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, 57(6), 389-410. doi:10.1080/10502556.2016.1196848
Guzzo, K. B. (2018). Marriage and dissolution among Women’s cohabitations: Variations by stepfamily status and shared childbearing. Journal of Family Issues, 39(4), 1108-1136. doi:10.1177/0192513X16686136
Guzzo, K. B. (2017). Shifts in higher-order unions and stepfamilies among currently cohabiting and married women of childbearing age. Journal of Family Issues, 38(12), 1775-1799. doi:10.1177/0192513X16664180
Hadfield, K., & Nixon, E. (2013). Including those that exclude themselves: Comparisons of self-identifying and non-self-identifying stepfamilies. Journal of Family Studies, 19(2), 207-216. doi:10.5172/jfs.2013.19.2.207
Higginbotham, B. J., & Goodey, S. (2015). Relationship and marriage education for remarried couples and stepfamilies. Evidence-based approaches to relationship and marriage education (pp. 301-316) doi:10.4324/9781315757353-31
Ivanova, K., & Balbo, N. (2019). Cementing the stepfamily? biological and stepparents’ relationship satisfaction after the birth of a common child in stepfamilies. Journal of Family Issues, 40(10), 1346-1363. doi:10.1177/0192513X19836456
Jenkins, D. A. (2013). Boundary ambiguity in gay stepfamilies: Perspectives of gay biological fathers and their same-sex partners. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, 54(4), 329-348. doi:10.1080/10502556.2013.780501
Jensen, T. M., & Ganong, L. H. (2023). Associations between dyadic relationship quality and stepfamily functioning: A common fate modeling approach. Family Process, 62(2), 641-652. doi:10.1111/famp.12803
Jensen, T. M., & Ganong, L. H. (2020). Stepparent–Child relationship quality and couple relationship quality: Stepfamily household type as a moderating influence. Journal of Family Issues, 41(5), 589-610. doi:10.1177/0192513X19881669
Jensen, T. M., & Harris, K. M. (2017). Stepfamily relationship quality and Stepchildren’s depression in adolescence and adulthood. Emerging Adulthood, 5(3), 191-203. doi:10.1177/2167696816669901
Jensen, T. M., Lippold, M. A., Mills-Koonce, R., & Fosco, G. M. (2017). Stepfamily relationship quality and children’s internalizing and externalizing problems. Family Process, doi:10.1111/famp.12284
Jensen, T. M., & Shafer, K. (2013). Stepfamily functioning and closeness: Children’s views on second marriages and stepfather relationships. Social Work (United States), 58(2), 127-136. doi:10.1093/sw/swt007
Jensen, T. M., Shafer, K., & Holmes, E. K. (2017). Transitioning to stepfamily life: The influence of closeness with biological parents and stepparents on children’s stress. Child and Family Social Work, 22(1), 275-286. doi:10.1111/cfs.12237
Jensen, T. M., & Weller, B. E. (2019). Latent profiles of residential stepfamily relationship quality and family stability. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, 60(1), 69-87. doi:10.1080/10502556.2018.1488111
Kalmijn, M. (2021). Attitudes toward stepfamily relationships and biological relatedness: The role of family experiences in youth. Family Relations, 70(3), 741-758. doi:10.1111/fare.12547
Kellas, J. K., Baxter, L., LeClair-Underberg, C., Thatcher, M., Routsong, T., Normand, E. L., & Braithwaite, D. O. (2014). Telling the story of stepfamily beginnings: The relationship between young-adult stepchildren’s stepfamily origin stories and their satisfaction with the stepfamily. Journal of Family Communication, 14(2), 149-166. doi:10.1080/15267431.2013.864294
King, D. B., & DeLongis, A. (2013). Dyadic coping with stepfamily conflict: Demand and withdraw responses between husbands and wives. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 30(2), 198-206. doi:10.1177/0265407512454524
King, V., Amato, P. R., & Lindstrom, R. (2015). Stepfather-adolescent relationship quality during the first year of transitioning to a stepfamily. Journal of Marriage and Family, 77(5), 1179-1189. doi:10.1111/jomf.12214
King, V., Boyd, L. M., & Thorsen, M. L. (2015). Adolescents’ perceptions of family belonging in stepfamilies. Journal of Marriage and Family, 77(3), 761-774. doi:10.1111/jomf.12181
King, V., Lindstrom, R., & Washington, C. (2019). Patterns of shared religious attendance and positive stepfamily functioning. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 29(2), 357-368. doi:10.1111/jora.12409
Koren, C., Lipman-Schiby, S., & Sherman, C. W. (2022). What draws late-life repartners to each other and keeps them together? an intergenerational stepfamily perspective. Marriage and Family Review, 58(3), 271-289. doi:10.1080/01494929.2021.1958124
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Kreyenfeld, M., & Martin, V. (2011). Introduction to the special issue on the dynamics of stepfamilies in cross-national perspective. Zeitschrift Fur Familienforschung, 23(2), 123-127.
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Metts, S. M., Schrodt, P., & Braithwaite, D. O. (2017). Stepchildren’s communicative and emotional journey from divorce to remarriage: Predictors of stepfamily satisfaction. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, 58(1), 29-43. doi:10.1080/10502556.2016.1257904
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Schrodt, P., & Braithwaite, D. O. (2010). Dark clouds with silver linings: The (dys)functional ambivalence of stepfamily relationships. The dark side of close relationships II (pp. 243-268) doi:10.4324/9780203874370
Schrodt, P., & Braithwaite, D. O. (2014). No longer understudied, but still misunderstood: Expanding communication research on stepfamily relationships. Widening the family circle: New research on family communication, second edition (pp. 171-190) doi:10.4135/9781483387956.n11
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Seltzer, J. A., Yahirun, J. J., & Bianchi, S. M. (2013). Coresidence and geographic proximity of mothers and adult children in stepfamilies. Journal of Marriage and Family, 75(5), 1164-1180. doi:10.1111/jomf.12058
Shafer, K., Jensen, T. M., & Holmes, E. K. (2017). Divorce stress, stepfamily stress, and depression among emerging adult stepchildren. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 26(3), 851-862. doi:10.1007/s10826-016-0617-0
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