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Preventing Divorce in the Next Generation

with Ron Deal | December 20, 2022
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You do that by preventing divorce in their parents. Children of divorce are less confident about the idea of marriage, often choose cohabitation over marriage, and are themselves 89% more likely to divorce when they get married. What do you do for kids who have already experienced divorce? Give them a healthy marriage model. You prevent divorce in the next generation by preventing redivorce in this generation. Healthy stepcouples lead by example which is reparative and that breaks the cycle.

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  • You do that by preventing divorce in their parents. Children of divorce are less confident about the idea of marriage, often choose cohabitation over marriage, and are themselves 89% more likely to divorce when they get married. What do you do for kids who have already experienced divorce? Give them a healthy marriage model. You prevent divorce in the next generation by preventing redivorce in this generation. Healthy stepcouples lead by example which is reparative and that breaks the cycle.

  • 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.

How do you prevent divorce in the next generation?

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Preventing Divorce in the Next Generation

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December 20, 2022
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Ron: How do you prevent divorce in the next generation?

Announcer: For FamilyLife Blended®, here’s Ron Deal.

Ron: Well, you do that by preventing divorce in their parents. You see, children of divorce are less confident about the idea of marriage, often choose cohabitation over marriage, and are themselves 89% more likely to divorce when they get married. Well, what do you do for kids who have already experienced divorce? Give them a healthy marriage model.

You see, it’s also true that one way you prevent divorce in the next generation is by preventing redivorce in this generation. Healthy stepcouples show kids of divorce how to do it right. Their example is reparative and that breaks the cycle. For FamilyLife Blended, I’m Ron Deal.

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