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Ep 49 The Divorce
The Life-Saving Divorce—Gretchen Baskerville - 28 years ago, I made the hardest decision of my life—a divorce that saved me and my children. Gretchen Baskerville is a Christian divorce recovery leader, author, and researcher. She began leading support groups for single mothers in conservative churches in the Los Angeles area in and now focuses primarily on reaching people online. For more than 25 years, Gretchen has helped women and men of faith find strength, courage, and healing through the challenges of life-saving divorce. She listens with empathy to those recovering from domestic violence, betrayal, infidelity, addiction, and emotional abuse. A survivor of a toxic marriage herself, Gretchen understands the journey of rebuilding after loss. Following her own life-saving divorce and years as a single mother, she is now happily remarried. Stephen Baskerville Wikipedia
I spent the next 20 years as a single mom, facing challenges but growing stronger. This article appeared in the Spring issue of The Independent Review. During the past decade, family issues such as marriage and fatherhood have rocketed to the top of the domestic-policy agenda. The past two presidential administrations, along with numerous local governments, have responded to the continuing crisis of the family by devising measures to involve governmental machinery directly in the management of what had previously been considered private family life. Almost 80 percent of the respondents to a Gallup poll saw fatherhood as the most serious social problem today NCF A generation of fatherhood advocates has emerged who insist that fatherlessness is the most critical social issue of our time. Their case is powerful. 
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. Children of divorce are in desperate need of a relationship with both their parents. Sadly, far too many are reduced to having a relationship with only one parent: the mother. The silence on this issue is deafening, and this silence comes just as much from the right as it does from the left. It even comes from churches. Making matters worse is that divorce is no longer fault-based. Unilateral divorce is now the law of the land, and three-fourths of divorces are initiated by wives. To address this monstrous social travesty, I could think of no one better than Stephen Baskerville, former Professor of Government at Patrick Henry College. The Fatherhood Crisis Time
Gretchen Baskerville is a Christian divorce recovery leader, author, and researcher. They believed in the sanctity of marriage and they gave it all they had. If that describes you, this book will give you hope: for your future, for your children, and for your relationship with God. Sometimes divorce is a blessing from God to help you escape from a spouse who has a pattern of physical abuse, emotional abuse, infidelity, severe addiction, or neglect. I want you to know I see your pain. My book is a comforting hug. I want you to know you can love God and get a divorce and God will still love you. The highlights in this chapter?