If you look around, I think most of us have some sort of a connection to a single parent,

which has got to be one of the hardest jobs, and today we're going to be offering hope to single parents. I'm John Fuller along

with the vice president of our parenting department Dr Danny Werta. Danny I'm

wondering how you've observed some of the challenges that single parents have as you've

Counseled them and as you have them in your sphere of influence

Yeah, I'm thankful that I've gotten to travel that journey with several single parents in my

counseling practice. It's a tough road as they're coming in exhausted and confused as

to how to how to meet all the demands on them.

We have to travel into places that are hard for them.

Painful, they're carrying their pain, right?

The emotional pain. Some of the shame of being a single parent and there are various reasons why a parent is single. It could be a death, which is huge, it could be a divorce, it could be a variety of things.

And many of them carry this loneliness, that I'm alone, I need to do this all on my own, I've got

to power through it. They're trying to show warmth and

attentiveness to each of the kids and then on top of that they need to guide and

direct them and provide. A lot of them are at the point of burnout, tired, and not knowing that the nuances, some of them

say, hey, I wish I could just call someone off the bench to come in and help me out and moments where I'm confused and

especially like a single mom with a boy a teen boy or a single dad with a teen

daughter. They're added challenges there. Gender-wise, gender-

difference-wise, that makes it harder for that parent to lean in

in a way where they feel confident to lean in.

Well, we're going to hear now a conversation that focused president Jim Daley and I had with Dr.

Roland Warren.

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