I didn't see the show but I wouldn't consider step families "typically dysfunctional". Certainly no more than the so called "normal" family.
I didn't mean that all step families are disfunctional. My husband is a step father to my son and we are just as normal as other families.
What I ment was that ABC did a show on disfunctional step families. The first family was clearly a normal step family with problems, the second was over the top and not normal. There was violence and that is not typical to a disfunctional step family. So I'm not saying that all step families are disfunctional, I'm saying there are familes steps or no steps that are disfunctional, it is just ABC was doing a a show on the disfunctional ones!