That a relationship has gone wrong on one occasion does not mean that you can not try again with another person. Even when there are children involved. Mixed or reconstituted families are becoming more frequent, those family units in which one or both parents have had a previous marriage and bring one or more children to a new relationship.
And since family groups are diverse, the challenges facing stepmothers and stepparents are also different, as well as children and stepbrothers. To respond to many of these challenges, to support these new homes, there is the Service for Reconstituted Families.
In the face of the constitution of new bonds, biological, emotional and of coexistence and mutual support, very varied problems can arise and the establishment of the new family nucleus is not always easy, since complexity is added to the "traditional" nucleus.
It is important to accept that, after the breakup of a previous couple, the new father or mother's partner no longer replaces a parent, but is integrated into a structure in which, normally, the two biological parents are still present. The relationship modes change. And this can be difficult.
You are likely to find yourself in this situation of forming a new and broader family the Service for Reconstituted Families, an initiative of the Union of Family Associations (UNAF), wants to respond to the process of diversification of family models.
Knowing and attending to the specific needs of these families and the type of problems generated by family reconstitution, they can face difficulties more adequately, accept new roles and try to avoid previous "mistakes".
The aid focuses on issues such as defining the functions of the different family members, fostering cooperative parentality, avoiding the creation of two disparate educational and normative contexts, defining the roles of the parents of the parents with respect to sons and daughters and helping to the construction of the relationship of sons and daughters with the new partner of the parent.
The Reconstituted Family Service is a free resource (subsidized by the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality of Spain) at the service of those new families that present difficulties in their relationships and in their adaptation to the new family model; You can request an appointment by phone as explained from the UNAF website.
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In Babies and more | 'New genealogies': a book on how to approach the new family models, Stepmothers (and stepfathers) are no longer what they were: Decalogue for the new family to function
