Blended Families Need to Get Over The Brady Bunch
2007-07-24
By Susan Hetrick
New book by Scottsdale, Arizona author gives eight key ingredients for blending a family successfully
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SCOTTSDALE, AZ - The statistics aren’t pretty: almost 70 percent of remarriages with children end in divorce, most remarriages do not last five years, and it can take up to 10 years for a stepfamily to blend! Is there a happy middle ground; something between The Brady Bunch and these dire predictions?
Advice from the Blender: What to know before you blend so nobody gets creamed (ISBN 978-1-60266-569-9) by Scottsdale, Arizona, author Susan J. Hetrick, provides hope and eight key ingredients for blending a family successfully. She shows readers how their family can succeed and how to manage such challenges as: We’ll-live-happily-ever-after-Syndrome, choosing to love children who wish you were dead, bonding as a family without resorting to duct tape, and much more.
Hetrick says, “With both the Christian and secular divorce rate for remarriages hovering at around 70 percent, it seems that people in blending families need some help and encouragement in order to stop the recidivistic divorce rate.”
Hetrick has a heart for blended families. She and her husband began blending their family while she was in graduate school. During that time, they were faced with many of the issues presented in the book. “I know first-hand the struggles that blending families go through,” she explains, “and I know how difficult it is to face the challenges. However, I also know which tools make it work. The Lord called me to share that with others through this book, combining our own experience with those of other blending families from around the country.”
Susan J. Hetrick lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with her husband David and their four children. Susan earned her M.Div. in Counseling and Family Ministry from Phoenix Seminary.
Xulon Press, based in Longwood, Florida, is the publisher of Advice from the Blender. Part of Salem Communications Corporation, Xulon Press is the world’s largest Christian publisher, with more than 3,900 titles published to date.
Retailers may order Advice from the Blender through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors. Individuals can purchase the book at Christian bookstores, or order directly online at www.advicefromtheblender.com.
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For more information:Advice from the Blender: What to know before you blend so nobody gets creamed (ISBN 978-1-60266-569-9) by Scottsdale, Arizona, author Susan J. Hetrick, provides hope and eight key ingredients for blending a family successfully. She shows readers how their family can succeed and how to manage such challenges as: We’ll-live-happily-ever-after-Syndrome, choosing to love children who wish you were dead, bonding as a family without resorting to duct tape, and much more.
Hetrick says, “With both the Christian and secular divorce rate for remarriages hovering at around 70 percent, it seems that people in blending families need some help and encouragement in order to stop the recidivistic divorce rate.”
Hetrick has a heart for blended families. She and her husband began blending their family while she was in graduate school. During that time, they were faced with many of the issues presented in the book. “I know first-hand the struggles that blending families go through,” she explains, “and I know how difficult it is to face the challenges. However, I also know which tools make it work. The Lord called me to share that with others through this book, combining our own experience with those of other blending families from around the country.”
Susan J. Hetrick lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with her husband David and their four children. Susan earned her M.Div. in Counseling and Family Ministry from Phoenix Seminary.
Xulon Press, based in Longwood, Florida, is the publisher of Advice from the Blender. Part of Salem Communications Corporation, Xulon Press is the world’s largest Christian publisher, with more than 3,900 titles published to date.
Retailers may order Advice from the Blender through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors. Individuals can purchase the book at Christian bookstores, or order directly online at www.advicefromtheblender.com.
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