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He Never Hit Me: Annette’s Story of Emotional Abuse, Neglect, and Finding Freedom As a Christian lay divorce recovery leader for the past 25 years, it's been my privilege to hear a lot of stories of committed people of faith who had to leave their destructive...
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Judith Wallerstein on Divorce and Children: What Pastors, Counselors, and Divorcing Parents Need to Know A critical review of Judith Wallerstein’s five major books on divorce, children, and marriage, focusing on what The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce actually says and...
12 Half-Truths in Focus on the Family’s “How Could Divorce Affect My Kids?” Focus on the Family should be ashamed of this article. Why? Because it tells frightened parents that divorce harms children, but leaves out the most important truth: in abusive, violent,...
The Funniest and Fiercest Responses to the Heritage Foundation’s Push to Make Divorce Harder My Facebook post about the Heritage Foundation’s plan to reward marriage financially and make divorce harder hit a nerve. Hundreds of people commented in less than 24 hours....
Heritage Foundation’s Plan to Make Divorce Harder: A Critique The Heritage Foundation says America can be “saved” by strengthening marriage and family. In practice, some of its proposals would reward certain married couples financially and encourage states to make...
How Can I Afford to Divorce? When people ask me, “How can I afford to divorce?” I hear the fear underneath it: I finally see that I may need to leave, but I do not have the money to do it. That fear is real. And for many of us, the first answer is not a second job or...
When a Marriage Looks Fine but Is Quietly Destroying You Sometimes the marriage that looks “fine” from the outside is slowly crushing the person living inside it. Not because they are merely unhappy. Not because marriage is hard. But because secrecy, chronic fear,...
Scorecard for Premarital Articles from Focus on the Family Are you a pastor, parent, or friend wondering whether certain Focus on the Family articles are wise premarital reading? This page is designed to help you answer that question. Experts recommend that premarital...
Scorecard for Marriage Ministry Articles from Focus on the Family How Focus on the Family handles abuse, separation, and divorce Which articles help abuse victims—and which make safety harder Are you a pastor, parent, or friend wondering whether certain Focus on the...
Getting to Safety Is Biblical When a Marriage Becomes Harmful Almost every time I say, “Safety is biblical,” someone pushes back and brings up one of the standard objections. So let’s walk through them carefully. First, let’s be clear: I am not talking about avoiding...