Well, hello everyone. I'm James Dobson and you're listening to Family Talk, a

listener supported ministry. In fact, thank you so much for being part of that

support for James Dobson Family Institute. Well, our enemy, as we learn in Genesis chapter 3, hates the image of God.

He hates anything that depicts the reality of the one that he so despises.

And in Genesis 3, we see the deception. But you go back to Genesis 2, we see that God says

there's something that's not good that he created. Now it wasn't not good because it was bad,

it couldn't have been bad, he made it. But what did he say was not good?

What was not good was a solitary, isolated human being. We were not made to be alone. We were not

made to be self-centered. We were made as Christ said to lay our lives down for

someone else and in the process find our very meaning, our very existence and our

very purpose. Well that was just a brief sample of what you'll be hearing today,

featuring one of our guests, Kurt Bruner.

Welcome to Family Talk, the Broadcast Division of the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute.

I'm Roger Marsh and as we just heard man was not made to be alone.

It is the sacred union between a man and his wife that is the basis for the family and yet sadly today many families

face the problem of fatherlessness in fact one in four children in America are

growing up without a dad in the home right now. That's almost

18 million kids and that is truly a staggering figure. Think about this. A boy or

girl grows up without a dad in the home.

Or maybe dad is physically present, but emotionally,

he's pretty distant, or he doesn't have a relationship with God.

Those kids run the risk of growing up

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