What Blended Families Face
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The statistics indicate many couples today are part of a blended family. If that's you or someone you know, John and the Smalley's will provide some hope on learning to move forward. You'll also hear Jim Daly and Ron Deal discuss how choosing to remarry impacts more people besides just you and your mate.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't |
| 0:04.7 | grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I |
| 0:10.2 | take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I |
| 0:14.4 | ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't |
| 0:18.8 | shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love |
| 0:23.6 | with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app |
| 0:28.3 | today. |
| 0:35.9 | Blended families is our topic today and are there anything but simple, so |
| 0:41.0 | complicated, but we think this conversation is going to give you some hopes |
| 0:45.3 | of stay tuned. I'm John Fuller with Greg and Aaron Smolley. They lead the |
| 0:49.1 | marriage department here at the ministry and Greg. What do the numbers say |
| 0:52.9 | about how many marriages in the US are currently blended families? Yeah. The |
| 0:59.0 | research really shows about 40% of the families in the US are blended, which |
| 1:04.1 | means that at least one of the spouses has a child from a previous |
| 1:09.9 | relationship. And so that's a lot, which is why I love the work that Ron |
| 1:15.2 | Deel's doing. I love his ministry and others who are really trying to help |
| 1:20.7 | blended families acquire those tools and understand the issues so that they |
| 1:25.4 | can just have such strong families and marriages. Yeah. Well, let's go right |
| 1:29.6 | into the content with Ron Deel as he spoke with Focus President Jim Daley. And |
| 1:35.4 | Ron talked about some of the things that couples in a blended family face. One |
| 1:40.0 | thing you recommend is a family map with that crazy matrix. Do you really have |
| 1:45.1 | people sit down and map out all the connections and relationships? You know, |
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