Daily Grace for single parents on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face.

This week on the podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Robert Jones, a professor of biblical counseling at

the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

And he's here with us today to talk about this very difficult task of being a single parent.

There are a lot of different issues that single parents might face.

And Dr. Jones is going to give us wisdom about how parents can respond appropriately in

God-honoring ways with the grace of God to deal with those issues

that are so prevalent with being a single parent.

Dr. Jones, we're so delighted that you could be with us today.

Dale, very glad to be here and to be part of ACBC.

So as we look at this issue of single parents, obviously in our culture, we see that

single parenting is on the rise

for a number of different occasions. What we want to do is to try and help some of our counselors

think biblically through some of the issues that they will encounter as they try to care for

and minister to single parents. So, Dr. Jones, if you could at the beginning, just set us up with some of the particular

problems that we consistently see as counselors in the lives of those who are single parents.

Well, Dale, I think there are many kinds of problems.

I think we can think about any kind of problem that any of us would

have, but multiply that by 10 when you have the lack of the support that a typical family would have of a husband and wife.

I think some of the main issues that I think we should be thinking about include the question of how the

person became a single parent in the first place. How did that happen? Did it come about from being

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