Healthy marriages and families are the
keys to a healthy society.God places
people in families to help them develop as
individuals first and then to learn to
interact with others.Unhealthy families
offer an environment which may choke
individuality and create barriers for
spiritual growth.It is our hope that
Marriage and Familywill enable readers to
examine their own situations in light of
God’s desire for their families,to identify
and begin to heal from past wounds and
to gain the knowledge they need to help
others.
—BarbaraA.Riggs,Ph.D.,LMFT
Cynthia Benn Tweedell,Ph.D.xiv
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