2010: Year of the New American Family
2010 is a watershed moment for what we might call the New American Family. This is the year, experts tell us, that stepfamilies will outnumber first families in the U.S. One in three Americans is now a “step” of some sort — stepparent, stepsibling, or stepchild. And half of us will be in a stepfamily situation at some point in our lives.