FamilyLife Blended® Minute

Celebrating Stepparents

January 6, 2025

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Here’s one you haven’t heard in the media lately. Good news about stepparents.

FamilyLife Blended® Minute

Celebrating Stepparents

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Ron Deal

Ron L. Deal is one of the most widely read and viewed experts on blended families in the country. He is Director of FamilyLife Blended® for FamilyLife®, founder of Smart Stepfamilies™, and the author and Consulting Editor of the Smart Stepfamily Series of books including the bestselling Building Love Together in Blended Families: The 5 Love Languages® and Becoming Stepfamily Smart (with Dr. Gary Chapman), The Smart Stepfamily: 7 Steps to a Healthy Family, and Preparing to Blend. Ron is a licensed marriage and family therapist, popular conference speaker, and host of the FamilyLife Blended podcast. He and his wife, Nan, have three sons and live in Little Rock, Arkansas. Learn more at FamilyLife.com/blended.

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Celebrating Stepparents

Air date: January 6, 2025

Ron: Here’s one you haven’t heard in the media lately. Good news about stepparents.

Announcer: For FamilyLife Blended®, here’s Ron Deal.

Ron: If you’re like me you probably have a few Google alerts set up so you can stay in touch with subjects that you really care about. I have some alerts set up for the key word stepmom and stepdad. And I have to tell you, rarely if ever is there a story about either that is positive or encouraging. Come on, really? Not only is that not accurate it supports the myth that stepparents are evil and to be feared.

All over the world there are stepparents who day in and day out are giving, nurturing, teaching, and loving and if you ask me worthy of an award. Tweet that, would you? We need to set the record straight. For FamilyLife Blended I’m Ron Deal.

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