“…Considerable research shows that marriage and parenting education programs can provide an effective, low-cost avenue to family wellbeing, even, sometimes especially, for distressed populations (Amato, 2014;Doty, Davis, & Arditi, 2017;Markman & Rhoades, 2012;McGill et al, 2016;Quirk, Strokhoff, Owen, France, & Bergen, 2014). However, general relationship education programs do not adequately address stepfamily challenges (Adler-Baeder & Higginbotham, 2004), (Adler-Baeder, Robertson, & Schramm, 2010).…”