TARGET: Books on Step Families

[KAREN DEFRANK <KDEFRANK@GLASSBORO.K12.NJ.US>]

I have a third grade student, Jasmin,  who sends me e-mail. She is Muslim,
from Bangladesh, and her parents are divorced (due to spouse abuse which the
child does not know about). She lives with her mother and her mother's
parents. Dad lives in NYC and she visits him regularly.
Dad has announced that he is getting re-married to a woman from Bangladesh.
It is an arranged marriage.
Jasmin is beside herself with concerns about this. She is the only child and
I think most of her worries about that her daddy is going to be busy with
the step mom and she will be left out.
I am a step mom and have tried to reassure her, but the guidance counselor
came to talk to me today. Jasmin told her that she writes e-mail to me.
My biggest concern is that my Christian, American ways are going to
contradict her parent's Muslim Bangladesh ways... so I try very carefully to
weigh everything I say to her. I was shocked when she told me her parents
were divorced, and even more shocked when she said Dad was re-marrying.

Jasmin loves to read and I would like to find a book for her about step
families.


This is probably way too many details for you. Sorry, but thanks for
listening.
Anyway - can anyone recommend a book???

Karen DeFrank, LMS
Dorothy L. Bullock Elementary School
Glassboro, NJ  08028
kdefrank@glassboro.k12.nj.us

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