20: The Enduring Perils of Divorce With Dr. Diane Medved
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Patrick Coffin
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🗓️ 25 April 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
God says he hates divorce (Malachi 2:16). Jesus tells his followers that Moses only permitted divorce because of the hardness of their hearts, and that divorce and remarriage constituted adultery (Matthew 19). Yet our culture has become more and more pro-divorce since no fault divorces laws were first passed (under Gov. Ronald Reagan in 1969). Divorce has lost its stigma.
Dr. Diane Medved has written a comprehensive antidote to the “grass is greener” propaganda with her latest book, Don’t Divorce: Powerful Arguments for Saving and Revitalizing Your Marriage.
Married for 30 years to nationally syndicated radio host Michael Medved (who was a guest on Episode 002 of the show, talking about his new book The American Miracle: Divine Providence in the Rise of the Republic, Dr. Medved doubles down on the message of her 1989 book The Case Against Divorce.
If you’re in a troubled marriage and are tempted to part ways, or you’re looking for data-driven reasons why divorce is a calamity for the whole family (and often for the friends of the divorcing couples), she has amassed an impressive array of evidence from the social sciences and her own practice.
In this interview, the observantly Jewish clinical psychologist makes all the important distinctions and offers actionable responses for couples undergoing trials within their marriages. This is a great one share with them!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode number 20 of the Patrick Coffin Show. |
| 0:04.0 | Warning, a following podcast contains ideas and arguments that might challenge your worldview. |
| 0:09.0 | I don't know what the Patrick Coffin Show is. I don't know what it wants if it's looking for |
| 0:16.3 | ransom. I don't have any money. |
| 0:19.3 | True or false. |
| 0:21.3 | You're tired of secularist bullies punching your values in the face. |
| 0:26.0 | You're looking for a smart commentary that doesn't sound like NPR, |
| 0:30.0 | with our annoying voices. |
| 0:31.0 | You're wondering where we're going and why we're in this |
| 0:34.0 | hand basket. If you answer true to any of these, you've come to the right place. |
| 0:38.6 | You're about to meet the innovators and influencers who are restoring the Judeo Christian |
| 0:44.5 | foundations of our culture right here on the Patrick Coffin show. |
| 0:50.0 | And now here's your host, Patrick Coffin. |
| 0:54.0 | Yes indeed, welcome to the Patrick Coffin show. |
| 1:00.0 | Yes, indeed, welcome to the Patrick Coffin show. |
| 1:02.0 | I'm so happy you're joining us. This is |
| 1:04.4 | going to be time well spent. We live in a throwaway culture, we throw away |
| 1:08.6 | water bottles, we throw away waterproof cameras, plastic bags, lots of unimportant things. |
| 1:14.5 | But since the late 60s, we've also been throwing away important things like marriages. |
| 1:19.5 | We see pro-divorce marriage, anti-marriage pages on Facebook. We find happy divorce card |
| 1:26.5 | sections in the pharmacy and we have divorce parties. It's a whole movement, there's a whole |
| 1:31.5 | subcategory of industries that profit from divorce. |
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