When you and your ex-spouse fight, it's your children who suffer.
After a divorce, part-time parenting is challenging. Take the risk of acting like a parent and perhaps your children will respect you as one.
Children who have one parent not living a Christian life will need "spiritual inoculations" to help deal with an environment that's hostile to their faith.
How stepfamilies can curb conflict and tension during the Christmas season.
The Couple Checkup offers couples a checkup on the health of their marriage.
With healthy expectations and a specific strategy to build a relationship, a satisfying bond can be nurtured.
Children in blended families are going to feel like they don't belong, and they often take it out on the stepparent. But there is hope.
If they work together, divorced parents can help their children adjust to differences between homes.
As I considered remarriage, I was scared of the work it would take to blend these two families.
Can they make this blended family work?
A father's loyalty and support toward their wives can make a world of difference in a blended family.
Laura tells you how to avoid making some of the most wicked step parenting mistakes.
If being a mother is hard work, then being a stepmother is twice as difficult.
As a forty something woman, Rhonda found herself widowed.
The normal stress of the holidays is multiplied for stepfamilies.
Stepchildren often feel caught between their biological parents.
Jerry Sittser talks about the years after the accident when he focused on raising his children as a single dad.
What to do when remarriage destabilizes a child’s world.
The difficulty of seeking the respect and acceptance of a stepchild.
The first two years of stepparent-stepchild relationships tend to be tense and stressful for everyone.
Stepparents must develop a secure bond with their stepchildren.
A delicate balancing act for blended families.
Remember Hebrews 12:2 as you look forward to a future payoff for your parenting efforts.
Problems arise when a biological parent continually tries to guide, guard, and direct the stepparent’s every step.
Divorced parents who fight with each other are trampling on their most prized possession—their children who have to live in both homes
Finding an effective stepparent role is a challenge.
Improving your relationship is a challenge, so be intentional.
Sarah and Michelle alike found themselves jealous of their stepchildren.
Dating again has its pluses and minuses. When do you know to take caution?
Are you ready to date again?
Dating is hard, and dating again after divorce or loss can be even more complex.
It hurts to watch a child suffer rejection from an uninvolved parent. Or from an inconsistent parent who promises time together and repeatedly breaks the promise.
Learning to put away childishness when dealing with a previous spouse.
Though stepfamilies may look like traditional nuclear families on the outside, the dynamics on the inside are very different.
What should you consider before getting remarried?
Parenting is difficult enough when it's your own kids, but throw someone else's into the mix and you may have problems.
We vowed to love our spouse forever, but the marriage ended in divorce.
Marriage and family therapist Ron Deal will tell you how to blend a stepfamily so that it comes out just right!
Blending two families in remarriage can be a daunting task.
The spiritual struggle of many Christian stepfamily adults.
Suggestions from experienced stepfathers on conquering Stepdad Mountain.
You must understand the challenges of stepfamily living in order to make an informed choice about remarriage.
Single parents can find wise counsel from Jill Rigby, mother of adult twin sons, on such topics as fear and bitterness, what things to be mindful of, and how to deal with a former spouse who is a bad influence on the kids.
Ginger Kolbaba offers a refreshing perspective on the adjustments of remarriage.
Ginger Kolbaba encourages those considering remarriage to find out if they're ready for the challenges of a blended family.
Terri Clark looks back and recalls the special challenges of blending two households.
Stepmom Terri Clark tells stepparents how to build their home on a foundation of faith.
