Abstract
Ritual performances in the areas of everyday routines, family traditions, and family celebrations provide opportunities for remarried families to define family membership on the levels of the immediate stepfamily, the binuclear family, and the remarried family suprasystem. A review of research on remarried kinship networks is used to discuss functional and dysfunctional patterns of inclusion or exclusion of potential family members at each level. An association is suggested between coparent relationship style and expanded or contracted kinship patterns. Examples from a small clinical study of remarried families illustrate the operationalization of these patterns around holiday celebrations.
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