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Urgent Need: As the back-to-school season begins, families are facing mounting pressure—tough choices, cultural confusion, and strained relationships.

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Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Loving Your Adult Child

Loving Your Adult Child

Best-selling author Gary Chapman offers parents advice for maintaining a loving relationship with their adult child despite disagreeing with their choices and for communicating household rules and expectations if the adult child lives at home.
Original Air Date: April 2, 2013

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