Week 260: Couples Who Have Been Disowned by Their Children
Please join us this week in praying for couples that have been disowned by their children. The nature and causes of fractured family relationships are varied, complex and rarely one-sided. The division can be the choice of the parents or the child/children. Regardless, the division is always painful to someone, if not to everyone. One variety of fractured family relationships is when children disown their parents. The impetus for this separation can be rooted in bad parenting choices or in the equally bad choices of adult children. In either case, the painful effects the division has on the disowned couple can be a challenge to the very existence of their own husband/wife relationship. If the estrangement from their children is the result of bad parenting choices, particularly if those choices were those of one parent (for example, an absentee father or an overly protective/smothering mother), the other spouse may harbor resentment and blame....