Blended Family? Kids May Use Drugs and Have Sex Young
I found this truly depressing. Adolescents who have half-siblings with a different father are more likely to have used drugs and had sex by age 15 than those who have only full siblings. Researchers examined a phenomenon known as “multi-partnered fertility” or MPF, according to newswise.com. "This happens when parents who are not romantically involved with each other form new relationships and have another child with a new partner," the Web site reports. (Hmm. Wonder if they know Kody Brown.) What the researchers focused on were the connections between this re-partnering and additional childbearing on adolescent drug use and early sex. They focused on mothers and first-born children who lived with their mothers most of their lives. “For children, MPF means having a half-sibling, but it also means, for first-born children, that they usually experienced their biological parents splitting up — if they were together at all, lived in a single mother household fo...