Timeless Wisdom: Male/Female Hour - Do Your Parents Know Who You Should Marry?
Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager
Salem Podcast Network
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On Today's Show: Prager explores the age-old question: do parents know best who their child should marry? He shares his own experiences and insights, discussing the importance of respecting parental opinion while also making one's own decisions. With a mix of personal anecdotes and listener calls, Dennis delves into the complexities of parental influence and the delicate balance between listening to advice and asserting independence.
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| 0:00.0 | For over 30 years, Point of Grace has shared music, faith, and friendship with listeners across the country. |
| 0:05.1 | Now Denise, Lee, and Shelley are inviting you into their circle. Welcome to Circle of Friends. |
| 0:10.1 | The podcast is Point of Grace. Each week they're talking real life, current events, stories of true friendship, wisdom from God's Word, and all their favorite things. |
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| 0:30.9 | Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. |
| 0:34.3 | Hear thousands of hours of Dennis's lectures, courses, and classic radio programs, and to purchase Dennis Prager's rational Bibles, go to Dennis Prager.com. |
| 0:49.6 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:50.9 | You're listening to the Dennis Prager show where we talk about everything in life. |
| 0:54.6 | And it's not just a line to distinguish the show. |
| 0:57.7 | It's a fact. |
| 1:01.0 | I have a huge subject here for you to take a break from News Talk. |
| 1:05.8 | A huge subject that I can't believe we've never discussed. |
| 1:09.8 | I can't believe it. |
| 1:10.7 | It is amazing to me how many huge subjects I still haven believe we've never, I've never discussed. I can't believe it. It is amazing to me |
| 1:12.0 | how many huge subjects I still haven't touched. I mean it because I always think, oh my God, |
| 1:18.4 | there's what's left. Here's a huge one. Do parents know best who their child should marry? |
| 1:29.4 | Very simple. Do your parents know better than you? |
| 1:36.3 | And do you know better than your child? |
| 1:40.8 | I don't know the answer to it. I don't know if there is a, there certainly isn't a 100% rule, but in the limited world that any one of us lives in, the parental objections that I saw in my life to the choice of their child, |
| 2:03.7 | the batting average of the parents has been high. |
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