Analysis Of Ron Tranmer's The Blended Family Recipe

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What is a Family? By law a Family is defined as a group of blood-relatives; all the relations who descend from a common ancestor, or who spring from a common root (Civil 9 Verse. 323). In Biology we learn that to make a child it takes one man and one women. In life, we learn that although a child is created by two specific people, the child is not always raised by their producers. Ron Tranmer wrote the poem, “The Blended Family Recipe”, which illustrates that a blended family is like beef stew (Tranmer, print). The definition of a “blended Family” is when a man with his children from previous relations joins a women with her children from a previous marriage to become a family (blessings). Ron Tranmer has written hundreds of poems over the …show more content…

He has graciously provided access to over 400 poems in 32 categories to his fans online through Rontranmer.com without worry of copyright infringement only asking that they are not sold nor betrayed as anyone’s personal work. Mr. Tranmer has published three books so far and is currently working on his fourth. He is most well-known for his poems handling grievance, hope and faith. His words have guided many people through the healing process of losing someone (Tranmer, email). His inspiring words in the “Blended Family Recipe” illustrates the imagery that blood is not always thicker than water in each stanza through marriage and divorce, children, and challenges blended families face making blended families the hardest and most rewarding families in the …show more content…

Even with sixty percent being married with the divorce rate in the US the odds are that they will some way be a part of a blended family. According to Blended family statistics over 2,100 blended families are formed each day in the US (Blended). According to another study over 29 million parents (13 percent) are also stepparents to other children making the prediction that the blended family will become the predominant family structure in the United States (blessings). This goes to show that all children of a couple whether biological or step should be loved and cared for equally as a whole; although each child is separately unique in their own special

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