Leading Your Family as a Single Mom (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Pam Farrel (raised by a single mom) and PeggySue Wells (a single mom of seven!) offer guidance to single moms (and dads!) as they navigate life with their children. They examine some of the best decisions a single mom can make—things like choosing to thrive, creating a nurturing home, introducing your child to Jesus, and learning to respond to situations in healthy ways. It’s an encouraging conversation for the single parent! (Part 1 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | And in Psalms |
| 0:04.3 | in Psalms 27 it says he will keep me safe in his dwelling. He will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent and that's really a promise from God that he will take care of you single mom. |
| 0:18.0 | He will shelter you if you give him a chance. |
| 0:21.0 | That's Pam Farrell offering encouragement for single moms and she's with us today on |
| 0:26.5 | focus on the family along with her co-author and friend Peggy Sue Wells. |
| 0:31.1 | Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller and your host is focus on the |
| 0:34.1 | family president and author Jim Daly. John did you know that one in four homes is |
| 0:39.2 | led by a single parent? I did not that's a staggering. Yeah I think it represents somewhere |
| 0:44.3 | around 20 million children too so a high number of children are living in the |
| 0:48.8 | single parent household and man I imagine many single parents never thought their marriages would fail or it could be a situation where a person is a widow or widower and that's the situation they're in. |
| 1:02.0 | We don't know all reasons for |
| 1:03.9 | single parenting but circumstances happen and there it is. We want to help you. We |
| 1:09.3 | want to come alongside you. You are doing probably the hardest job in the world and you're doing it with |
| 1:14.4 | one hand tied behind your back and we want to recognize that. We typically lean |
| 1:19.6 | toward talking about a single parent mom because the predominant number of |
| 1:24.8 | single parents are moms but we recognize that dads are there we see you and we |
| 1:30.2 | want you to know that a lot of the content we're going to talk about today |
| 1:33.0 | you can translate into your experience so don't feel like we're ignoring you |
| 1:37.3 | uh... we want to though help |
| 1:39.7 | uh... all of you and single-parent moms are the predominant structure that we see. |
| 1:44.6 | So we'll be talking about that today. |
| 1:46.6 | Yeah, we've got help, by the way, at the ministry for all kinds of families wherever you're |
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