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title: "Blended families more common, but the ’step’ in ’stepmom’ still carries a stigma"
date: "2011-01-19"
authors:
  - name: "Sousan Arafeh"
    job_title: "Guest Contributor"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2011/01/19/blended-families-more-common-but-the-step-in-stepmom-still-carries-a-stigma/"
---

# Blended families more common, but the ’step’ in ’stepmom’ still carries a stigma