Thanks to streaming platforms, there is an "unprecedented boom" in narratives featuring LGBTQ+ family structures (e.g., The Kids Are All Right

: Tackles the complexities of the foster-to-adopt process and the immediate "blending" of distinct backgrounds. Psychological & Practical Challenges Portrayed

More recently, (2018) uses digital fragmentation—iPad screens, YouTube videos, text threads—to show how the modern blended home is also a mediated space. The protagonist lives with her father, but her "real" family is her online friends. Cinema is acknowledging that a blended family is no longer just step-siblings; it is the relationship between a parent, a child, and the child's digital life, which the step-parent can never access.