Blended families are complex relationships. A common challenge in blended families is the rejection of the step-parent by their partner's children. Learn more about how to identify and handle this challenge with Debbie Ausburn.

Debbie Ausburn is a social worker turned lawyer who has worked with youth-serving organizations for more than 40 years.  Starting in her teens, she has served as a camp counselor, juvenile court probation officer, group home parent, criminal prosecutor of crimes against children and litigation attorney advising youth-serving organizations throughout the United States.  Her most important challenges, however, have been parenting foster children and stepchildren.  She has never had biological children, but she has collected seven children and ten grandchildren.  She has put the lessons that her children taught her in her recent book Raising Other People’s Children: What Foster Parenting Taught Me about Bringing Together a Blended Family.

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