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“Kids Are Resilient” Does Not Mean “Divorce Doesn’t Matter” Anti-divorce groups love a sneering line: “They say kids are resilient. Ha ha.” Notice the trick. “They” is left vague on purpose. It can mean therapists, selfish divorcees, feminists, lawyers, researchers,...
The UK Just Took Aim at Presumed 50/50 Custody — Will America Listen? For years, family courts have operated from a dangerous assumption: Children should have contact with both parents whenever possible. That sounds reasonable—until one parent is abusive. Until a...
Will I Be Charged With Kidnapping If I Leave With the Kids? What Parents Need to Know One of the least discussed fears facing protective parents is the fear of being accused of “kidnapping” their own children. For many parents trying to leave an abusive or controlling...
Jim Daly’s Life Exposes the Problem with Focus on the Family’s Divorce Narrative By Gretchen Baskerville Focus on the Family often warns that divorce devastates children for life. Their articles describe divorce as a “tornado” that leaves “devastation and heartache,”...
Is This Abuse? 130 Overt and Covert Warning Signs Not all abuse is physical. Not all abuse is loud. Some abuse slowly wears you down until you barely recognize yourself. This list compares obvious abuse with more disguised abuse. If you are struggling to determine...
Emotional Abuse IS Physical Abuse More precisely: emotional abuse can become physical abuse in the body. The body processes emotional abuse much like it does physical abuse, according to the book, THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE. It has long been known that trauma does not...
87 Ways "The Body Keeps the Score" After Trauma Trauma is not only remembered in the mind; it is carried in the body. In the work of two of the best-known trauma physicians, Judith Lewis Herman, M.D., and Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., trauma appears not merely as an...
Hosea Is Prophetic Symbolism, Not a Marriage Manual When I post about some divorces being biblical, I get comments such as this one: “Read the Book of Hosea,” as if Hosea’s bizarre story in the Bible settles the divorce debate. But Hosea and Gomer's marriage is not a...
Divorce Is Good Sometimes Most of us wish divorce were never necessary. I certainly do. Marriage was meant to be loving, undefiled, protective, and lifelong. But sometimes a covenant that was meant for protection becomes a place of bondage. And when that happens,...