Living Proof
Julie was the youngest of 10 children in a blended family. Nine of the 10 kids had been divorced and remarried. Over the years, her family experienced hurt feelings, abuse, kids getting kicked out of the home-all while she felt powerless to change it. But Julie found the Lord and a church home, and through our ministry discovered how her stepfamily can break the generational pattern of divorce. She learned that hurting families "really is an epidemic," but your family can break the cycle.
Show Notes
About the Guest
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Julie was the youngest of 10 children in a blended family. Nine of the 10 kids had been divorced and remarried. Over the years, her family experienced hurt feelings, abuse, kids getting kicked out of the home-all while she felt powerless to change it. But Julie found the Lord and a church home, and through our ministry discovered how her stepfamily can break the generational pattern of divorce. She learned that hurting families "really is an epidemic," but your family can break the cycle.
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Ron Deal
Ron L. Deal is one of the most widely read and viewed experts on blended families in the country. He is Director of FamilyLife Blended® for FamilyLife®, founder of Smart Stepfamilies™, and the author and Consulting Editor of the Smart Stepfamily Series of books including the bestselling Building Love Together in Blended Families: The 5 Love Languages® and Becoming Stepfamily Smart (with Dr. Gary Chapman), The Smart Stepfamily: 7 Steps to a Healthy Family, and ...more
Ron, my family is living proof that dysfunction breeds dysfunction.
Ron: Ron, my family is living proof that dysfunction breeds dysfunction.
Announcer: For FamilyLife Blended®, here’s Ron Deal.
Ron: Family difficulty does tend to flow through the generations. Julie could see it in her family. She was the youngest of 10 children in a blended family. Nine of the 10 kids had been divorced and remarried, some more than once. Over the years, her family experienced hurt feelings, abuse, kids getting kicked out of the home—all while she felt powerless to change it.
But Julie found the Lord and a church home, and through our ministry discovered how her stepfamily can break the generational pattern of divorce. What she learned is that hurting families “really is an epidemic,” but your family can break the cycle. And I agree. For FamilyLife Blended, I’m Ron Deal.
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