Parenting Adult Children When They Walk Away from God (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 19 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 | Barbara grew up with an abusive father that she feared and hated. |
| 0:04.8 | So when she became a mom, Barbara needed lots of help. |
| 0:08.1 | To me, focus on the family has always been my parenting guide because my parenting that I grew up with needed to change. |
| 0:16.3 | Today's culture pushes confusion and chaos. |
| 0:19.3 | Parents like Barbara are desperately looking for a source of |
| 0:22.9 | biblical guidance and truth. Focus on the family provided the parenting resources that I needed |
| 0:29.8 | in order to raise a healthy child, one that knew she was loved, knew she was important, knew she was |
| 0:37.1 | special to God. |
| 0:38.4 | I'm Jim Daly. |
| 0:39.6 | Every day, people reach out for help with their marriages, their parenting, and their faith. |
| 0:45.1 | Your support is urgently needed to deliver hope and joy to these families. |
| 0:49.8 | For a limited time, we have a matching opportunity where any gift you send will be doubled. |
| 0:55.9 | Give today at focus on the family.com slash family. |
| 1:00.1 | This program is sponsored by Focus on the Family, helping families thrive in Christ for more than 40 years. |
| 1:06.5 | Thank you. It just communicated to me that she loved me, she saw me, she knew what my interests were, |
| 1:21.8 | and she sought to brighten my day. |
| 1:25.2 | And that has translated to me as a parent of looking at those adult kids and |
| 1:29.9 | thinking, how can I be like that to them? Well, that's Mary DeMuth, and she's back with us to |
| 1:35.8 | offer hope and help for parents of wayward adult children. Thanks for joining us for Focus on |
| 1:41.8 | the Family with Jim Daly. I'm John Full. |
| 1:50.6 | I so appreciated the insights that Mary offered last time as a mom of three adult children, |
| 1:53.4 | as she shared some compelling stories. |
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