Some people may say that a family that is split up and then put together again or with another family is not a true family but it is. There are many different types of families, divorced, stepfamilies, one-parent families, and so on. All in all they are just as much a family as any other.
             A wife of a college professor wanted a divorce, so the week she left, he decided to do some research to find out what was happening to him. He went to the library looking for any advice from a book he could find; none helped him except for one. This book was a collection of essays by various sociologists. One of the essays was so close to what he was experiencing, he thought that is was a horoscope. The essay focused on middle-class Americans of the strait-arrow persuasion, likely to be good parents, all around good, parents but still divorced. That was what described him the best. In reading this essay he found that him and his wife had the same flaw that lead to the divorce, it was that they left each other in order to find themselves. He goes to a different house, probably an apartment, lives there for a while then goes to his wife's house to see the kids. There he helps out by mowing the yard and repair things. Eventually she will ask him to stay for dinner. Then she will ask him to stay the night, but leaves in the morning so that the kids don't get there hopes up about them getting back together. This pattern may go on for several years. This is called post divorce, and that is what their marriage should have started out as.
             Stepfamilies are good for people in many ways. They help to reduce stress for all the members. The children in a stepfamily are less likely to repeat a grade than children in a one-parent family. The households are more relaxed, close and less tense or disorganized. Kay Paskey and Marylyn Ihinghertallman have identified nine different structurally distinct types of s
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