FamilyLife Blended® Minute

Less Than One-Half of One Percent

with Ron Deal | February 5, 2020
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We asked blended families what their biggest challenge is. The answers were all over the place. Grief and sadness. Jealousy. Conflict with former spouses. Bonding issues. On and on they went. Here's the takeaway: Despite having resources to address these issues and offering training to the local church, we estimate that only one-half of one percent of churches do anything to help blended families. Forty percent of families today are unsupported by the Christian community. What about your church?

  • Show Notes

  • About the Host

  • About the Guest

  • We asked blended families what their biggest challenge is. The answers were all over the place. Grief and sadness. Jealousy. Conflict with former spouses. Bonding issues. On and on they went. Here's the takeaway: Despite having resources to address these issues and offering training to the local church, we estimate that only one-half of one percent of churches do anything to help blended families. Forty percent of families today are unsupported by the Christian community. What about your church?

  • 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 Preparing to Blend. Ron is a licensed marriage and family therapist, popular conference speaker, and host of the FamilyLife Blended podcast. He and his wife, Nan, have three sons and live in Little Rock, Arkansas. Learn more at FamilyLife.com/blended.

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