Lamar and Ronnie Tyler were fed up with pervasive negative images of black marriages in the media. So, the Tylers started their website, which promotes positive images of marriage and family in the black community.
Lamar and Ronnie Tyler were fed up with pervasive negative images of black marriages in the media. So, the Tylers started their website, which promotes positive images of marriage and family in the black community.
For stepfamilies, family meetings can build much needed family traditions, create memories, and establish a working family identity.
Jay and Tammy Daughtry and Ron Deal talk about co-parenting children of divorce in a way that leaves them happier and healthier.
Jay and Tammy Daughtry and Ron Deal talk about what’s required to raise emotionally healthy children after a divorce.
Stepparenting has its challenges. That’s what Jerry and Kate Angelo found out when they married and became a blended family of six.
Jerry and Kate Angelo reflect on the issues that thwarted their first marriages, and remember with gratitude the circumstances that brought them back to God and to each other.
Many couples travel to the “foreign country” of stepfamily living with little or no preparation.
Professor and youth minister Kara Powell shares some proven ideas for churches and parents that will help kids develop their own faith.
Youth expert Kara Powell talks about three phrases parents can implement that are especially helpful in building “sticky faith” in their kids.
We’ve all done it: We’ve all unjustly taken our anger against one person out on another. The question is, what do we do about it?
Gil and Brenda Stuart share how they experienced the pains and joys of remarriage.
The terms used to define and describe the blended family experience vary from person to person.
Blending family Christmas traditions is very challenging. Bob and Vicki Maday’s respective daughters describe the uncomfortable but inevitable tension that exists in a new blended family’s Christmas traditions.
Bob and Vicki Maday each had adult children when they got married. Bob and Vicki’s adult daughters share the complicated emotions they had to wade through when their parents married and created a new blended family.
Learn about helping adult stepchildren transition into a stepfamily.
I’m convinced that God uses the stepfamily experience to teach His children about choosing love.
When is it time for stepfamilies and stepparents to graduate to the next stage of life? When is it time for them to stop viewing their relationships as new?
Everyone agreed that stepparents should be acknowledged, but doing so was often awkward for the entire family.