Parenting Adult Children When They Walk Away from God (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
One of the most challenging stages of parenting is transitioning to the empty-nest season, especially when our adult children make decisions we disagree with. Mary DeMuth guides us on this journey of finding joy regardless of our wayward adult kids, sharing practical and spiritual tips on how to stay connected with children who have left the Christian faith.
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| 0:00.0 | Ken spends a lot of time away from home, working on the pipeline in Alaska, and our podcast has become his lifeline. |
| 0:08.2 | Focus on the family has helped my marriage by leaps and bounds. You give us so much meat and potatoes to think about. |
| 0:16.7 | Like, don't focus on yourself. Put yourself in your spouse's shoes. What are they going through down there? |
| 0:22.0 | Ken finds our content so helpful. |
| 0:24.2 | He's eager to share it with others. |
| 0:26.4 | It can hit home. |
| 0:27.5 | Hey, I'm going through that same thing. |
| 0:29.2 | That's why I enjoy listening. |
| 0:31.4 | So I spread that to other coworkers who might not know Christ, |
| 0:36.5 | who might be having a bad day. You get to know them. |
| 0:39.6 | Say, hey, by the way, listen to this Focus on the Family podcast. I'm Jim Daly. Right now, we need |
| 0:45.5 | your help to deliver hope and joy to marriages like Kins. When you give before December 31st, |
| 0:51.5 | your gift will be doubled. Donate at focus on the family.com slash family, |
| 0:57.4 | or call 800A family. |
| 1:02.0 | And at the end of the week, she came up to me and she said, I want you to look me in the eye. |
| 1:06.1 | She said, I think God has something for me to tell you. |
| 1:08.8 | Your children know that you love them. And I burst into tears |
| 1:13.7 | because it was this heavy burden I had been carrying all my life. Mary DeMuth is here to discuss |
| 1:20.1 | a really big topic of concern for so many parents today, and that is wayward adult children. |
| 1:27.0 | We're going to offer you help and hope today |
| 1:29.3 | on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, and thanks for joining us. John, many people may not know, |
| 1:34.6 | but we have a counseling team here, about 20 counselors, and they manage about 2,000 calls a month |
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