blended family

A blended family is defined as a family made of two parents and their children from previous marriages.

(noun)

An example of a blended family is a woman with two children from a previous marriage who marries a man with three children from a previous marriage.

See blended family in Webster's New World College Dictionary

a social unit consisting of two previously married parents and the children of their former marriages

See blended family in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A stepfamily.

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