In the journal Family Process an article was published in 2014 titled Stepparents and Parenting Stress: The Role of Gender, Marital Quality, and Views About Gender Roles by Danielle Shapiro. This article focuses on the stress of parenting and even more specific, step parenting. What was once a rare occurrence has now become a new normal, having two households come together as one, resulting in stepparents. This article states that stepmothers often experience more parent stress even than other at-risk groups, such as parents of children with behavioral problems. Combining households with essentially another family is stressful on all those involved as the roles and relationships change and adapt. The study compared biological parents and
