Reinvestigating remarriage: Another decade of progress

The body of stepfamily research published this decade exceeded the entire o utput of the previous 90 years of the century. The complexity and quality o f the scholarly work in this decade improved as well-better samples were ob tained methods were more sensitive to stepfamily complexity, longitudinal d esigns were more frequently employed, and other important methodological ga ins were made. Unfortunately, many unknowns regarding remarriages and stepf amilies remain. We present an overview of trends regarding topics, research methods, and theories; we critique research methods that have not been pro ductive; and we identify scholarly advances. Finally, new conceptual, metho dological, and theoretical directions for future scholarship on remarriages and stepfamilies are proposed.