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...
Divorce and Children
Hope Restored: What Do They Teach About Kids and Divorce
What Hope Restored Teaches About Children and Divorce—and What Their Own Manual Actually Shows Hope Restored pushes a clear message: divorce harms children, so the responsible...
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. Why Telling the Kids Together Doesn’t Always Work Many...
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...
My Pastor Never Told Me Divorce Could Be Good for Kids
Why Didn't Our Churches Tell Us the Truth about Children and Divorce? For decades, many of us stayed far longer than we should have—because we truly believed we were doing the...
The Best Children’s Books on Divorce for Kids, Teens, and High-Conflict Families
Best Children’s Books on Divorce When parents or grandparents go looking for a children’s book on divorce, they are not just shopping for a cute story. They are trying to find...
7 Reasons to Have Hope for Your Kids After Abuse and Divorce
Overview of this Presentation: Thirty years of family research have shown that high-conflict homes are incredibly damaging to children. When researchers studied kids brought up...
Harvard Study: No-Fault Divorce Saves Lives (Suicide, Violence, Homicide Drop)
Divorce Saves Lives When unilateral "no fault" divorce laws started passing one state at a time, starting with Governor Ronald Reagan in California in 1969, researchers wanted to...
Is It Best to Stay for the Kids? What 50 Years of Divorce Research Actually Shows
Is It Best to “Stay for the Kids”? What Decades of Research Actually Show 🔍 2026 Research Update: What Helps Kids Most After Divorce Decades of research—including work from...
Focus on the Family’s Articles on Children and Divorce Are Misleading Abused Wives
How Focus on the Family Misled Us to Believe Divorce Was Worse for Children Than Abuse! • About Me: If you're new to my blog, read this first. I'm a committed Evangelical...
How a Focus on the Family Divorce-and-Kids Article Nearly Killed Me
How Focus on the Family Misled Me to Believe Divorce Was Worse for Children Than Abuse Summary: Patricia tells her story of being in an abusive marriage, and how a Focus on the...
Is it Always Best to “Stay for the Kids”? No, Not If the Home is Toxic
The old "Stay for the Kids" myth suggests that kids will be so destroyed by your divorce, that you should never leave, even if there is a pattern of abuse, sexual immorality,...
Kids of Divorce vs. Kids from Married Parent Homes
Quick Fact: The Majority of Children from Divorced Families Turn Out Fine It's common to hear the old stereotype that the majority of children of divorce are deeply troubled. But...
Will the Kids and I Ever Be Happy Again After Divorce? Studies Say Most People Are!
Will I Ever Be Happy Again After Divorce? Question: I've heard divorce will destroy me and my kids forever. Is that true? FACT: 7 in 10 Christians who divorce state they are...
Divorce Myths Busted: Why Leaving a Toxic Marriage Can Be Best for Your Children
About Me: If you're new to my blog, read this first. I started leading Christian divorce recovery groups in Evangelical churches in 1998. I write about "life-saving divorces,"...
Divorce vs. Legal Separation for Abuse Victims: What Christians Need to Know
Divorce vs. Legal Separation: What Abuse Survivors Should Know Divorce vs. Legal Separation Many churches feel that legal separation is a good solution for an abused wife or...