What Experts in the PBS Documentary "Kids & Divorce" Say About Custody After Abuse The PBS documentary Kids & Divorce: For Better or Worse, hosted by journalist Dave...
Divorce and Children
“I Wish I’d Left Sooner”: What Parents Say About Timing Their Divorce When Kids Are Involved
“I Wish I’d Left Sooner”: What Parents Say About Timing Their Divorce When Kids Are Involved One of the hardest questions parents in destructive marriages ask is: “Should I wait...
How to Prepare for a Mandatory Divorce Parenting Class
💔 Getting Through the Mandatory Divorce Parenting Class If you’re looking for Christian divorce support, you’re not alone. Many believers facing an abusive or high-conflict...
Are They Telling the Truth About Divorce? What the New Study Really Says
Are They Telling the Truth About Divorce? What the New Study Really Says You might have read headlines or seen posts from groups like the Institute for Family Studies and Focus...
Christians: Life After Divorce — Real Stories of Challenge, Healing, and Hope
I asked people in my private Facebook group for divorced Christians: "How has life changed?" Background: For nearly 30 years, I have been leading Christian divorce recovery...
New Study Shows Kids of Divorce are Unlikely to Have Teen Pregnancy, Incarceration or Early Mortality
New Study Shows Kids of Divorce are Unlikely to Have Teen Pregnancy, Incarceration or Early Mortality EDITED 8-14-2025 If you have the older yellow graph, please delete it and...
A Teenager asks, “What is the Effect of Divorce on Children?”
On Instagram, a teenager messaged me, "What is the effect of divorce on children?" She was working on a school project. Here is my reply: Hi Marcella (not her real name),...
The Colson Center is Unsafe for Abuse Victims: They Want to Divorce to Be Harder to Get
What is Going on at the Colson Center? Why have they scrubbed articles on DIVORCE written by Charles Colson (who was divorced and remarried himself)? I was brought up in a...
Review of “The Power of a Praying Wife” by Stormie Omartian
VIDEO REVIEW of THE POWER OF A PRAYING WIFE by Stormie Omartian For people wondering why so many Christian women say that "The Power of a Praying Wife" book is destructive...
Critique: Focus on the Family’s TikTok on Single Mothers and Brain Trauma
Several people have been very concerned about a problematic 60-second TikTok video from Focus on the Family (2/10/2024) that appeared to teach that single mothers have serious...
Debunking the Myth: Are Children of Single Mothers Who Remarry “40 Times More Likely” to be Abused?
Debunking the Myth: Are Children of Single Mothers Who Date or Remarry “40 Times More Likely” to Be Abused? In the world of social media, it’s easy to stumble across shocking...
Book Review: “Them Before Us” by Katy Faust and Stacy Manning
12 Serious Problems with Them Before Us by Katy Faust and Stacy Manning As a Christian, I really wanted to like this book by a Baptist pastor's wife, Katy Faust and her friend,...
Divorce Tips: 10 Ways To Stay In Touch With Your Children When They Are With The Other Parent
Question of the Day from a Divorced Mother of Young Children with Shared Custody: "Is there a preferred phone, app, or texting application that you have given your young child so...
Hope Restored: What Do They Teach About Kids and Divorce
Hope Restored Marriage Intensives Want to Scare You About Divorce and Children I’m doing a multi-part series on the HOPE RESTORED marriage intensives from Focus on the Family....
12 Positive Outcomes of Divorce that Nobody Told Us
12 POSITIVE OUTCOMES OF LIFE-SAVING DIVORCES...THAT NOBODY TOLD US Believe it or not, most Americans place a high value on marriage. We long for a marriage that is loving,...
Lundy Bancroft: Why Mothers Are Losing Custody of Their Kids to Abusers, and What You Can Do About It
Why Mothers are Losing Custody of their Kids to Abusers, and What You Can Do About It Interview with Lundy Bancroft, the bestselling author of Why Does He Do That? Inside...
“If I Divorce, Will My Children Divorce?” No. They are likely to have lifelong marriages.
If I Divorce, Will My Kid's Marriage End in Divorce, Too? Most adults whose parents divorced do not divorce. They are likely to have lifelong marriages. The majority of...
Bad Fathers Are Bad for Kids. Two-Parent Married Homes Aren’t Always Best per the Jaffee Study
Bad Fathers are Bad for Children: A Summary of the Jaffee Study This is a summary of the highlights of the Jaffee Study-for marital abuse victims who are weighing options: To...
How To Tell the Kids About The Divorce
HOW DO WE TELL THE KIDS ABOUT OUR DIVORCE? Note: This article is for difficult divorces, not for amicable divorces. Many books and articles recommend that you and the...
What’s in the Best Interest of the Child?
The best interest of the child is the Court's paramount consideration when deciding issues of conservatorship, possession, and access in divorce cases, SAPCR cases, and...
12 Half-Truths in “How Could Divorce Affect My Kids?” from Focus on the Family by Amy Desai, J.D.
Fact check of the article "How Could Divorce Affect My Kids?" by Amy Desai, J.D., on the Focus on the Family website. WARNING: This article has 12 half-truths in it. It misleads...