After allowing television cameras into their home and their lives only to have their marriage and family fall apart, Jon and Kate Gosselin and their children are still celebrities of sorts. Now, though, many people are licking their chops for more dirt and titillation, and watching with bated breath for further news of this couple's demise. The custody arrangements of this soon-to-be-broken family illustrate the confusion that occurs after a divorce. Jon and Kate will soon have to maintain 1½ residences apiece.
Not having followed the show or the resulting fallout, I'm not 100 percent sure who said or did what, but regardless of the emotional wounds inflicted, unless there is Divine intervention, it's probably too late for reconciliation because of no-fault divorce laws. From the beginning, these laws were a bad idea and have led to great suffering and social conflict. The "no-fault" fault lines are a classic example of good intentions paving the road to hell.
But for couples who are thinking about divorce or even divorced, there's hope. For one, there's a great program called Retrouvaille. Then there is Mike and Harriet McManus's Marriage Savers. The McManuses have been fighting for marriages for a long while now, offering resources for engaged, newly wed, and failing couples.
With so much help available, maybe we shouldn't despair even about Jon & Kate and their eight.
Into the Fray
By: Alan Eason|Published: February 8, 2012 6:57 PM
We are very excited about all the great commenting that goes on The BreakPoint blog. It is growing and more people are getting engaged. Only one hitch -- it is pretty much "among Christians."
I'd like to invite you (even those have not commented here yet) to go out to the front lines with us -- to the Colson Center YouTube channel. Click below to find out why.
Eric Metaxas, who for two years was a member of the BreakPoint writing staff, was the guest speaker at this year's National Prayer Breakfast, held a few days ago at the Hilton in D.C. See him pictured here, making President Obama laugh. But after the jokes, Eric gently spoke truth to power regarding abortion, just as Mother Teresa did some years ago when she spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast.
In another case, a 15-year-old Wisconsin student was threatened and verbally abused by school superintendent of Shawano High School for writing an op-ed in opposion to gay adoption. Ironically, the article was a school assignment.
Five or six years ago Focus on the Family released “The Truth Project” DVD series, and I went through it as a discussion leader of a small group. I haven’t looked at it since, so when a friend of mine said a group was going to go through it and invited me, I agreed. I thought it would be good to refresh what I learned from the DVDs and maybe learn some new things I missed the last time.
What a sad statement about the growing culture of death in the Netherlands: Advocates for euthanasia and assisted suicide are celebrating a decade of their legality by hosting a weeklong film festival called the "Week of Euthanasia."
Sadly, after getting their foot in the proverbial door, the advocates continually redefine the criteria for which people "request," voluntarily or involuntarily, suicide. READ FULL ARTICLE »
