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Question of the week: What custody arrangement is best for the children?

People ask me this question quite often. Usually, they are children’s ministry leaders or church leaders who don’t have much experience with divorce or single-parenting issues. Nationally, there is a huge debate on this issue. Let’s take a step back in history to help you understand some of the issues in this debate. In 1969, when then-Governor Ronald Reagan signed the no-fault divorce Read more…

Posted: May 16th, 2018 ˑ 2 Comments
Filled under: Accept the Challenge, Co-parenting, Divorce Issues, Single Parents

What is shared parenting, and how does it affect the children in your ministry?

Riley has just started attending your church. She seems to be a happy kid. She talks freely about her mom and dad and even mentions them in the same sentence at times, as in, “My mom and dad both like that new restaurant.” So you are surprised when one day Riley says something about her dad’s house. You go to your files and Read more…

Posted: June 2nd, 2016 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Co-parenting, Divorce Issues, Modern families, Visitation

Question of the week: How is child custody decided– and how do I understand custody definitions?

It can be confusing for anyone ministering to the child of divorce and or divorcing parents. Following are questions children’s ministers in particular have asked me. Is there a formula that is used when deciding custody and visitation? Do all states have the same rules when it comes to child custody? What is legal co-parenting? What is shared parenting? What does sole custody Read more…

Posted: July 13th, 2015 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Divorce Issues, Question of the week, Single Parents, Step and blended families

Question of the week: Why do you talk so much about the single moms?

It’s true that a lot of posts we do on this site are about single moms. The simple reason is that a majority of single parents are single moms. Because of this, most of my personal experience is with single moms. However, there are some great single dads in our society as well. More and more single dads are stepping up and either helping raise Read more…

Posted: January 12th, 2015 ˑ 4 Comments
Filled under: Question of the week, Single Parents, Uncategorized