“…There have been very few investigations of the perceptions of stepfamilies as groups, but the limited findings we have indicate that stepfamilies are viewed less positively than most other family forms. For example, Bryant, Coleman, and Ganong (1988) found that stepfamilies were evaluated more negatively than nuclear families. In a more recent study, we asked college students to write what they believed to be culturally stereotyped attributes of nuclear families, single-parent families, and stepfamilies (Ganong & Coleman, 1996).…”