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$2 million shortfall and continue important family ministry efforts.

Moving forward in faith but we need your help!

Urgent Need: Right now, Focus on the Family is facing a $2 million ministry shortfall. We are moving forward in faith that God will provide for our critical marriage and family programs, but we need your help. Will you stand in the gap with a vital gift before 11:59 p.m. on August 31?
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Moving forward in faith but we need your help!

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Family Roles & Relationships

A loving daughter and her father sit beside an elderly mother, smiling and offering support, symbolizing the importance of caregiving for parents.

Care For Your Marriage While Caregiving For Parents

Caregiving is a season, so it helps to have regular getaways for empathetic listening, caring conversations, essential evaluation, and the ongoing need for flexibility and modifications.

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Do You Worry About Being Judged A Bad Parent?

Are you a bad parent? Tim Hawkins weighs in and humorously dances around that question until he comes to a realization about parenting.

A man and a woman are enjoying cleaning the floor together, helping each other as husband and wife. The Christian roles of husband and wife have gotten a bad rap. Have your view of marital roles and submission have been smaller than God’s?

What Are the Biblical Roles of Husband and Wife?

What are the roles of Christian men and women in marriage? And why does it matter? Here are a few things to consider.

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Kids Need Parental Respect, Love, And Gratitude

Respect is an essential component of communication and correction in the home. Read more about how respect is one of the seven essential traits of parenting.

Entertainment, Worldview, and Your Family

What is a worldview and how does it impact how we view our family and our consumption of entertainment? Discover how you can find meaning through building a strong foundation and worldview upon the Christian faith.

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What is The Purpose of Family?

Help children understand the importance of family and family relationships.

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Freedom in Christ

Here are faith activities to teach kids about freedom through our relationship with Jesus.

How to Help Your Parents and Your Kids Bond

Foster a strong relationship between your children and their grandparents by creating opportunities for them to interact

A couple smiling and enjoying coffee together in a kitchen, representing healthy gender roles in marriage through mutual respect and open communication.

Biblical Gender Roles in Marriage

Learn how embracing your God-given gender roles in marriage can bring vitality, joy and security into your relationship.

Family laughing and playing together in their backyard, illustrating the importance of family time and building strong relationships.

Slow Down to Create Margin for Family Time

The intentional act of slowing down to create a margin for family time provides benefits that will carry forward in every family member’s life.

Mom helps child build confidence by teaching him how to do laundry. The image has a little boy and his mom kneeling on the floor talking laundry out of the dryer together

Chores Help Kids Be Successful In Life

Children build their self-confidence through learning small, real life skills.

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Overcoming Role Confusion and Boundary Threats

By following a three-step process, couples from differing ethnic backgrounds can overcome the marital stressors resulting from the conflicting cultural assumptions they bring to the marriage.

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Restoring Family Relationships in a Fractured World

Our families are being fed a line about “having it all.” But that’s not the end of the story.

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Key Findings of Mark Regnerus’ New Family Structure Study

Compared with off-spring from married, intact mother/father homes, children raised in same-sex homes are markedly more likely to…

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Your Teen’s Spiritual Gifts

Help your teens discover their spiritual gifts as a means for helping them gain direction in their life.

When we ask our kids for forgiveness, we model a essential trait for life

Grace and Forgiveness in Parenting

Grace and forgiveness are necessary a healthy home and faith. Asking our children for forgiveness is an essential parenting trait.

When your remarriage affects your kids, discuss it with them and spend times with them.

How Remarriage Affects Kids

Because Mike and I were widowed, not divorced, we thought we’d found the easy button for blending families: no joint-custody or child-support hassles.

How to be the dad your family needs is being with them. Dad standing with wife, son and daughter celebrating.

Fatherhood: How to be the Dad Your Family Needs

Fathers have the awesome responsibility of laying a spiritual foundation in the home. But what does that mean, exactly? How can you be the dad your family needs?

Bucking the Entitlement Trend

Do your teens have unrealistic expectations of what they deserve? If so, you may be training them to feel entitled. Break the parenting habit of giving them privileges without responsibility.

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Are Your Kids Needing an Attitude Adjustment? Set Boundaries

Kids need clear boundaries and limits. Find out how boundaries and limits are part of the seven essential traits of parenting.