TIL 505: Children of Divorce (feat. Amy Baker)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
1. What are some of the common struggles of children of divorce?
2. What is the pressure like on childreen of divorce?
3. What are 2 or 3 ways we can help children who are dealing with this kind of tension?
4. How to help kids through going back and forth between parents?
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| 0:00.0 | Children of Divorce on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:10.7 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified |
| 0:15.1 | Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people |
| 0:19.1 | face. |
| 0:26.6 | This week on the podcast I have with me, Amy Baker, and she is the ministry resource director at Faith Church in Lafayette, Indiana. And she's been a part of the biblical counseling team there |
| 0:31.5 | since 1987. And Amy and I today are going to talk about this issue of children who come out of divorce |
| 0:38.7 | situations. |
| 0:39.9 | And Amy, I read in the past a book that I think was very impactful to me just in seeing |
| 0:45.0 | a sociological study on children of divorce. |
| 0:48.4 | And it's by Judith Wallerstein, a sociologist. |
| 0:50.9 | And she tracks over 25 years a longitudinal study of some of the impacts of |
| 0:56.1 | divorce on children, how they think about life, how they think about marriage, how they think |
| 1:01.2 | about love, how they think about the pain that came no matter what age they experienced their |
| 1:06.6 | parents getting a divorce. And some of the difficulties that go with that. And as important as a |
| 1:12.3 | sociological study can be, that should as Christians provoke us to deal with that decay, deal with |
| 1:18.2 | those problems, deal with the issues that a child might face in a breakup of a divorce from a |
| 1:24.2 | biblical perspective. And you've done some work to think through this. And it's very interesting to me as we think about our culture and how prominent divorce has become, 1984, right, where we see no fault divorce. And now how easy it's become. And maybe we didn't think about the unintended consequence it would have on children. Certainly the Bible warns us about that consequence, |
| 1:46.1 | but here we are in the middle, and researchers have begun looking into some of these effects |
| 1:52.3 | on divorce and how these effects can continue long past 10, 25 years into adulthood and so on. |
| 2:00.1 | I want us to talk about some of these things. So I want to |
| 2:02.6 | give you an opportunity to describe you've counseled a lot of children in situations like this. |
| 2:08.4 | What are some of the common struggles that you see that children have when their parents divorce? |
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