Sometimes the animosity between separated parents is so thick, you can cut it with a knife. In such cases both parents deflect blame on the other while denying or minimizing their own contribution to conflict. In some instances the allegations of both parents are  unfounded. The parents are like oil and fire and simply do [...]

I’m not sure who first used the term “helicopter parents,” but it is an apt description of an entire generation of parents who have been intimately, and often intricately, involved in the development of their children. These are the parents who closely hover, and then swoop into their children’s lives to prevent any and all harm or failure.

A recent Religion News Service headline reports, “Single Adults Want Ministry, Not Sympathy”. According to RNS, singles are “part of a demographic — men and women of childbearing age without children — that nearly doubled in 24 years, from 10 percent of the population in 1976 to 19 percent in 2000.”* How can marrieds interact [...]

FamilyLife, the family ministry of Power to Change Ministries, provides faith-based resources to help parents guide their teens in making biblical choices about ther sexuality: Passport to Purity Go on a guided weekend retreat for a father and son or mother and daughter that will prepare your preteen to make wise, biblical choices about their [...]

I am a single, attractive female who has never managed to settle down due to not meeting the right people. I have now become stigmatised, due to being single and independent. I have adapted to being single but I am very stressed with the constant abuse. I long for a friend and a partner and [...]

We knew the day was coming. “Mom and Dad, can I have a Facebook account?” Silence. The two of us looked at each other waiting for the other one to speak first. More silence gave into that weird moment when no one has said anything for an uncomfortably long period of time. A hundred stories [...]

Truth and Behavior of Parents

>> Watch part 6 of this series: Family Relationships and Child Behavior New to this series? Watch the introduction video here What forms our beliefs and our values? What forms our children’s beliefs and their values? Join internationally recognized speaker & scholar Josh McDowell as he explores how to have a positive impact on the [...]

Ready or not the time comes when we notice Mom or Dad has slowed down or we race through the night to be by their side in the midst of crisis. We step in from our busy lives and try to take charge. We know it’s our turn to step up to the plate and [...]

There is a lot of pain in being single. I don’t know why God allows it to happen. Advice: Your e-mail was forwarded to me so I could respond to you out of my own experience. I am 52 and have never been married. I know what it’s like to long for someone to share [...]

What does the Bible teach about aging parents? My father is 82, and my mother 78. Their health is starting to decline. The problem is that they do not want to have home health care, or anyone in the house as far as that goes. They want no mention of an assisted living arrangement, and [...]