Last week I went to dinner with my 80-year-old dad who was visiting me from Arizona. We were reminiscing about the days before my parents’…
Category: Quotes
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead and David Popenoe on A Child’s Stake in Marriage
It is easy to ignore children’s interests in marriage, when marriage is defined primarily as a couple relationship. Yet, children have a compelling stake in…
Andrew Root on Two Competing Priorities in Divorce
But for the children of the late-twentieth-century love union, all it took to destroy a marriage was a change in Mom and Dad’s individual, subjective…
Kristine Steakley on God and the Child of Divorce
Coming from a broken home is difficult, but it is not insurmountable. But if all we have are the world’s answers to the hurt we…
Linda Ranson Jacobs on the Church and Children of Divorce
Divorce has changed the landscape of our society and our churches. The world is reaching out to our families through TV, Internet, social media, iPhone…
Elizabeth Marquardt (Between Two Worlds)
“Yet as much as I believe we should support and understand the needs of divorced and single parents, I feel even more strongly that we…