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Familymooning: Honeymooning, with children
"Familymooning".
Sounds almost obscene, doesn't it ? Like something your kids would do to strangers out the back window while you're
zooming down Interstate 5. But no. The "familymoon" is a variation on the babymoon, which
we covered earlier this year. In babymooning, expecting couples get in one last night of kid-free whoopee prior to
birth. In the familymoon, however, remarried couples who already have children bring their broods along for the
post-wedding celebration. Practitioners of familymooning say it's a great way for the integrated families to bond as a
new family unit. According to the article, nearly 60 percent of remarriages involving children end in divorce, making
the together time of the familymoon all the more crucial. I have to say, however, that I'm a little disturbed with this quote from Yvonne Kelly of Toronto's Step and Blended Family Institute: "There is tremendous relief for people to hear me say, 'You don't have to love these children. You just have to care for them and respect them'." As a step-parent myself, I find this appalling. It's crass and stingy. You can let parents know it's okay to feel this way - but why feed and nurture that feeling? Other step-parents might disagree with me, but I think that if you can't love your stepchildren like your own, perhaps you should reconsider your union. Marrying a person with children is a commitment to both your spouse and to the kids, and isn't one "experts" should be encouraging parents to make half-heartedly.
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1-04-2006 @ 4:07PM
Brandi said...I can't believe someone actually had the gull to say that! Thats just wrong! Just care for them and respect them? Yeah, great idea. Just make sure they dont die on your watch huh?I think its extra important to love step kids, because they would be feel the most outta place.
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