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I am that James Dobson, and I'm so pleased that you've joined us today.

No matter how the effects of sin break us or leave us damaged, God can redeem us and take away the humiliation that sin brings.

Welcome to Family Talk with your host psychologist and bestselling author Dr. James Dobson.

I'm Roger Marsh.

On today's program, you're going to hear a replay of an interview Dr. Dobson recorded with Marilyn

Hans as she shared her story about being abused as a child. She tells how the sins of her

father and others made her feel ashamed of herself, but how God lifted that burden off of her

life so that she could live freely. Now, before we listen to today's program, the content covered in it may not be

suitable for young children, so listener discretion is advised. Now let's begin with part one of

overcoming the shame of the past right here on Dr. James Dobson's Family Talk.

Well, you are a private individual, Marilyn, and you don't often talk about yourself.

But I want to start with your early home life, Marilyn, and especially talk about your father,

who was, in fact, a minister, wasn't he?

Yes. And I think that he just kind of, well, I don't think, he had a hard time emotionally relating

to me and to his other two children, to my siblings.

And just very, very sad that he came away in life with so much emotional baggage in his own life that he had never gotten fixed,

never worked on it. And so what he ended up doing is passing along his baggage for his children

to carry. Now, you were kind of a caboose. You came along when your older sister was 20 years old.

And so your mother was kind of going through all this again, but your dad just couldn't

seem to play the role that a father ought to play.

He apparently knew what he ought to be doing.

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