{"id":311,"date":"2019-10-23T11:35:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T15:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/?page_id=311"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:55:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:55:52","slug":"stepdads-book-description","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/stepdads-book-description\/","title":{"rendered":"Stepdads: Book Description"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stepdads: Book Description<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"85%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"Left\" valign=\"Top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/users.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/StepdadsC1.jpg\" alt=\".\" width=\"150\" height=\"222\" align=\"Right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\">In\u00a0<i>Stepdads: Stories of Love, Hope, and Repair<\/i>, William Marsiglio addresses provocative and timely questions facing stepfathers, single mothers, and remarried couples today.\u00a0 This book speaks to those who study and work with stepfamilies as well as persons who have ever thought about or lived in a stepfamily.The issues are complex and diverse: How do men become romantically involved with women who have children from previous relationships?\u00a0 What enables these men to see themselves, and have others perceive them, as acting in a fatherly way toward other men&#8217;s children?\u00a0 What types of commitments, privileges, and obligations do men develop toward stepchildren?\u00a0 Can men really love stepchildren?\u00a0 How do family members negotiate the ways stepfathers relate to and discipline their stepchildren?\u00a0 How do stepfathers perceive and deal with biological fathers?<!--PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR--><p>Drawing on revealing in-depth interviews with a diverse mix of stepfathers and their partners, years of doing research on fathers, and his personal experience, Marsiglio examines these and related questions.\u00a0 Through rich and lively interviews, stepfathers and their partners with minor children of all ages describe in detail how they try to make sense of their feelings and circumstances while managing the challenges of their unconventional, complicated family lives.<\/p><!--PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR--><p>Marsiglio&#8217;s social-psychological analysis explores the deep meanings men associate with being stepfathers and the way their inner worlds are shaped by their interactions with family, friends, professionals, and strangers.\u00a0 His nuanced approach captures both the private and public faces of being a stepfather.\u00a0 With an eye toward the future, Marsiglio outlines strategies at the individual, family, and social levels that can enhance stepfathers&#8217; lives as well as the lives of the birth mothers and children they touch.<\/p><!--PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR--><p><b>&#8211;Description from Book Jacket<\/b><\/p><!--PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/stepdads-book-information\/\">Return to main book page<\/a><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1075,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-311","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1075"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/311\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}