How many of you caught the vacation episode last week?
Here’s a bit of a description from Reality TV Magazine – Stacie and Joe Fager are the parents of a blended family of six children in Iowa.  There’s Sarah (8) and Andrew (7), brother and sister from Joe’s first marriage; Chelsea (6), Stacie’s daughter from her first marriage; and Benjamin & Zachary (4-year old twins), plus Jacob (2), who are Stacie and Joe’s children together. Joe is a truck driver and full-time student, and he’s gone most of the week. Stacie, a stay-at-home mom, has a hard time controlling the children, …read more

  
One thing that I’d like to see from some of the reality television shows is a bit more focus on blended families.  Check out some of the statistics in the United States alone:

One million American children experience divorce every year.
Single parent families increased from 13% of the U.S. family population in 1970 to 31% in 1994
56% of divorced children had no contact whatsoever with their fathers in the first year after divorce, and 23% had no contact after five years.
Divorced children had the deepest feelings of anger, fear, and rejection of any childhood group, and were three times as likely …read more