A memorial service will be held May 24 for Dr. John Visher, a Bay Area psychiatrist and early advocate of the idea that strong, loving stepfamilies are possible when remarriage follows divorce.

Dr. John Visher, a California psychiatrist whose struggle with remarriage issues led him to co-found a national organization to advocate for stepfamilies, died April 17 at his home in the Bay Area ...

Emily B. Visher, a psychologist whose co-founding of a national advocacy and support group for stepfamilies was driven in part by her own “Brady Bunch”-style remarriage, died of cancer Oct. 5 ...