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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to acknowledge and thank Nancye Campbell, our Task Order Officer, at the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation of the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, for her consistently helpful and thoughtful guidance, feedback, and support throughout this project. Allison Deschamps, formerly with the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, also deserves our thanks for her feedback, support and helpful suggestions.
We also want to thank our Advisory Panel of experts on stepfamilies, Professors Kay Pasley, Marilyn Coleman, and James Bray. We appreciate the many ways in which their input improved the report, including advising us about specific literature on stepfamilies to review, discussing various approaches to conceptual models, and reviewing several drafts of the report.
Appreciation is due also to the following individuals: Laura Anatale and Elizabeth Umbro of Abt Associates for their efforts on the study of selected programs serving stepfamilies; Kayla Ledbetter, Jacob Nishida, and Nate Doss of Auburn University for their work on the organization of the literature review; Suzanne Erfurth for valuable editorial comments; and Jan Nicholson for preparing the document.
Finally, we wish to acknowledge the leaders of the programs for stepfamilies we interviewed for contributing their time to talk with us about their programs. Our conversations with them gave us a sense of some of the services available for stepfamilies today, the potential for such programs, and helped to shape the conceptual framework for marriage education for low-income stepcouples.
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