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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 25 views
According to Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor for National Review, families provide the foundation people need to be successful in a challenging and chaotic world. Ponnuru says that abundant evidence shows that children generally do better academically, economically, and behaviorally “when they are raised…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 5 views
One family grew up in the church. They had a fine house, great kids, and good jobs. But the wife had a mental problem. She would steal periodically from the family and gamble the money away. They tried to get her help. She went to counselors, doctors, and pastors but nothing permanently worked. Can you…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 2 views
It’s been well over a year ago now that they came. I was standing at the Welcome Center greeting guests who had been in the service when a couple approached. I could tell they were troubled. As I observed them, their body language was all wrong. She was fighting back tears and he was talking. She wasn’t…
Jarred Edgecombe • Illustration • • 7 views
Teen brides more likely to. end up divorced ATLANTA (AP) – Teenage brides are far more likely than older women to see their marriages break up within 10 years, a government study shows. Nearly half of marriages in which the bride is 18 years old or younger end in separation or divorce within 10 years,…
Kevin Scruggs • Illustration • • 169 views
March 10, 2008 The "Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" in Marriage By Dave Boehi In recent weeks I've been talking about why marriage is important in an age when an increasing number of couples are choosing to live together but not get married. I continue to receive some perceptive e-mails on the subject,…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 2 views
Making the right choice may sometimes involve some pain. However, if the pleasure principle is the main guiding principle of one’s life, then if one’s spouse does not bring one pleasure, discard him or her for on who does. This teaching, of course, wreaks havoc upon society’s most basic institution,…
Samuel Lamerson • Illustration • • 3 views
This middle-aged man was going through his mid-life crisis so he went out and bought him a new bright red Porsche. He decided to take his new Porsche on a test drive down the interstate one day. He got up to about 85 mph and all of a sudden he saw this highway patrolman with his blue lights and siren…
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BALTIMORE — A man with a history of mental illness pleaded guilty Wednesday to drowning his three young children one by one in a Baltimore hotel bathtub during a custody dispute with his former wife, who said she still cries every day over the deaths. Mark A. Castillo, 43, told police and a fellow inmate…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 5 views
The person who cuts off from his or her family is not any more independent than the one who never leaves home. They are both reactive to a huge degree of fusion. Relationship “nomads,” or serial monogamists and hermits all represent versions of intense cutoff. One who cuts off from parents is vulnerable…
Timothy C. Seal • Illustration • • 5 views
DIVORCE, THE COST A man was driving home one evening and realized that it was his daughter's birthday and he hadn't bought her a present. He drove to the mall and ran to the toy store and he asked the store manager "How much is that new Barbie in the window?" The Manager replied, "Which one? We have,…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 3 views
I found it fascinating that children of divorce who want children and those who don’t want children draw on the same experiences to arrive at different conclusions. People who want kids seek to rewrite their history by providing the children with what they missed. Those who don’t want kids have no interest…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 2 views
Alimony: when two people make a mistake and one continues to pay for it. Lifetime Speaker’s Encyclopedia, Volume 2, Jacob M. Braude, page 969
Jarred Edgecombe • Illustration • • 8 views
Egyptian Woman Files for Divorce Over Husband’s Refusal to Shower Monday , November 19, 2007 An Egyptian woman has filed for divorce from her husband on the grounds that he has not showered since they married, AlArabiya.net reported Sunday. The wedding took place two months ago. It was a quick courtship…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 3 views
Ron Deal, an authority on step-families, makes the following points: 1. Half of all children in the United States will have a step-parent during their lifetime. 2. Among women, 40 percent will either be a step-parent or be married to one at some time during their life. 3. Among children, 25 percent will…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 2 views
Jeff and I talked a lot about his parents. He loved them both. He grieved over their wrs. After being divorced for many years, their relationship was as bitter and harsh as the day they parted. Most of the prayers we prayed were on his parents’ behalf. Whether his family’s turmoil gave birth to his crimes…
Jon Rohr • Illustration • • 4 views
Pastors have the second-highest divorce rate among professions. (Monday Morning Insight 11/27/06) *
John Leffler • Illustration • • 7 views
Simon and Chana Taub seem to agree on only on thing: The house is mine. The couple wants a divorce, but both of them refuse to move out of their New York home. To solve the matter, the court ordered a sand-colored wall built through the middle of their living room. Simon can only get to his dining room…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 5 views
Police received an emergency call Monday from someone reporting a couple fighting in a car as they traveled on Highland Drive, about 10 miles southeast of Salt Lake City. Katie Martindale, 29, apparently got out of the cat and started to walk away when James Olwine, 33, drove off the road and hit her…
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During the 1970s and '80s, Chattanooga, Tennessee, was a decaying city. Divorce was rampant. Half of all births were to unwed mothers. Single women were the sole providers in 30 percent of homes, with many living in poverty. In August of 1997, a group of businessmen, civic leaders, and church leaders…
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Edward Gibbon, author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, has attributed the fall of the Empire to: 1. The rapid increase of divorce; the undermining of the dignity and sanctity of the home, which is the basis of human society. 2. Higher and higher taxes and the spending of public monies for…