Precious few seem alarmed by the amount of pain and anger that has emerged over the last thirty years in the hearts of adult children of divorce. In the United States alone, one out of every four adults under the age of forty comes from a broken family. No matter what was said by our parents about love and commitment in marriage, what many of them modeled was an unwillingness to forgive-not so much the sins of infidelity, violence, and drug use, but more common faults like neglect and lovelessness.
If you have a current subscription or current on-line account please log-in here to read the rest of this article.
1 [ Back ] In this article, Shannon Geiger has cited Judith Wallerstein's The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce-The 25-Year Landmark Study (New York: Hyperion Publishers, 2000), pp. 75-76, 138-139, 298-299, 333-334.
Shannon Geiger serves as a counselor at Park Cities Presbyterian Church and alongside her husband, Josh, in a PCA church plant serving the Hispanic community of Dallas.
Issue: "Forgiven, Forgiving" March/April 2004 Vol. 13 No. 2 Page number(s): 28-29
You are permitted and encouraged to reproduce and distribute this material in any format provided that you do not alter the wording in any way, you do not charge a fee beyond the cost of reproduction, and you do not make more than 500 physical copies. We do not allow reposting an article in its entirety on the Internet. We request that you link to this article from your website. Any exceptions to the above must be explicitly approved by Modern Reformation (webmaster@modernreformation.org).
Please include the following statement on any distributed copy: This article originally appeared in the [insert current issue date] edition of Modern Reformation and is reprinted with permission. For more information about Modern Reformation, visit www.modernreformation.org or call (800) 890-7556. All rights reserved.