7 billion neighbors
Welcoming your child into a blended family
Audio 48:30
In France in 2018, 728,000 families were blended with more than 2.4 children (Insee).
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By: Charlie Dupiot Follow |
Emmanuelle Bastide |
Ibrahima Giroux
1 min
In half of blended families, children are born from the new union.
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A birth marks an essential step in the new blended family.
The new spouses become parents again, and it is also an upheaval for the children of the previous unions.
This situation concerns many people since in France in 2018, 728,000 families were blended, according to INSEE.
With :
- Catherine Verdier,
psychologist, analyst and therapist for children and adolescents
, founder of Psyfamille, consulting firm
and author of
School Ecology,
published by Dunod in 2021
- Marie-Luce Iovane
, founder of
the Stepmothers' Club.
A report by
Charlie Dupiot
with the members of a blended family in Verrières-le-Buisson, in the Paris region... Charlie Dupiot met 5 of the 6 members of this "new" family: Hélène and Stéphane, the parents, Pierre, 16 years old, Hélène's son, James, 18 years old, Stéphane's son... and the youngest, the couple's daughter: Angèle, 7 years old.
The testimony of a blended family collected by Charlie Dupiot
And at the end of the program,
the chronicle of the psychologist Ibrahima Giroux, Parents, children, from here and elsewhere
: How children adapt to the change of country and culture?
Download here
A weekly meeting to help parents, Ibrahima Giroux is a psychologist in Dakar, Senegal.
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Your Soul
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