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Resources for Blended Families
The only one-day live event and livestream just for stepfamily couples, single parents, dating couples with kids, and those who care about blended families.
Join sites around the globe on April 29, 2023 as we unpack strategies that are crucial to healthy stepfamily marriages. With some of today’s most trusted and respected experts, Blended & Blessed will challenge, inspire, and encourage you.
FamilyLife Blended provides biblically-based resources that help prevent re-divorce, strengthen stepfamilies, and help break the generational cycle of divorce.
Their resources for blended families include:
- FamilyLife Blended® audio: Do you have stepfamily questions? We have answers to share. You can find an array of topics discussed within our podcasts featuring Ron Deal.
- Summit on Stepfamily Ministry: If you are a Ministry Leader who wants to be a catalyst for change, come to this 2-day experience that will equip you to minister to blended families.
- Resources: Books, DVDs, and curriculum to help provide practical, realistic solutions to the issues stepfamilies face.
- Ministry/Event Finder: Find a blended ministry and/or event in your area.
- Articles: Browse through many articles on everything from blended family life to ministering to stepfamilies.
- Devotional Readings: Simply search FamilyLife Blended on YouVersion to discover a number of reading plans available that offer practical, realistic solutions to the unique issues that stepfamilies face.
If you want to enter a blended family marriage well, this is the book for you. Aimed at engaged or pre-engaged couples who have at least one child from a previous relationship, Preparing to Blend offers wise counsel on parenting, finances, establishing family identity, and daily routines for your new life together.
The Smart Stepfamily
Blended families have many unique stressors and dynamics that challenge couple relationships and make stepparenting difficult which is one reason the stepcouple divorce rate is two-thirds. Couples, on the other hand, who know how to navigate these challenges, can build healthy, redemptive, godly homes for their children and have marriages that thrive.
This 8-week series, by family expert Ron Deal is designed for small groups, but equally useful for personal home study or premarital counseling.
The subject has been addressed before, but it bears repeating. Divorced and/or remarried people fill our churches. Children from broken or blended homes attend our Sunday school classes. We hope their teens attend our youth programs. In fact, 113 million adults have at least one stepfamily relationship, according to Craig Morgan, who, along with his wife Gina, founded Blended Together Forever, a ministry created to offer hope, encouragement and support to members of blended families.
Children of Divorce
One of the most pernicious lies promoted by modern culture is that a parent’s divorce won’t negatively affect their children. The message that kids are resilient – they’ll be fine, maybe even better off in a family where their parents aren’t fighting — has become so common it is accepted as fact.
But it’s wrong. Children deeply feel the pain of their parents’ divorce. Relationship educator Lauren Reitsema wrote, In Their Shoes: Helping Parents Better Understand and Connect with Children of Divorce, to give a voice to the millions of children whose parents’ divorce fractured their families.
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