One of the most common unrealistic expectations of blended families is Quizlet

• Remarried couples are less likely to communicate in both a positive and negative fashion than first married couples (Sweeney, 2010)
• More likely to withdraw in conflict (Halford, Nicholson, & Sanders, 2007)
• Remarried couples tend to be more egalitarian and more autonomous in decision making about finances and childrearing (Allen, Beaucom, Burnett, Epstein, & Rankin-Esquer, 2001)
• Less communitive, fight less; not good thing, just don't want conflict, afraid of conflict
• Children lower the probability of marriage for both men and women but even more so for women.
• Initiators are more likely to remarry than non-initiators.
• Women's odds of remarrying decrease as they age due to the cultural association of youthfulness with attractiveness and their likelihood of being mothers.
• Women and men who are employed and socialize with coworkers are more likely to remarry than those who are not.

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- Has become new stage in family life cycle as we have added in divorce and separation

- Start of blended and step families

Three distinct stages in entering and adapting to a second marriage:

- Entering the new relationship
- Planning the new marriage and family, takes a lot of planning in order to be successful

- Forming the remarriage family

- One of the biggest differences between first order (first marriage family) and higher order (2nd, 3 and so on marriage family), is the amount of family boundaries that have to be established

- Have to re-establish family boundaries traditions, roles, takes a lot of work

- Courtship differs between first marriages and remarriages
- a lot quicker
- Conversations tend to be a lot more richer, as when you date with children, have to consider whether the person is going to be a suitable role model figure.

- Brings about more serious conversations much earlier than expected

- Courtship may trigger old wounds, fears or regrets but the partners may have more realistic expectations for this relationship

- Many divorced persons choose to cohabit with there partners before remarriage or in place of it
- prolong getting married

- Single parents, however eager they are to find a new partner, their children usually remain the mental figures in their lives