Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 49 minutes ago
In one of their blog posts, Focus on the Family tells domestic violence victims that they should not talk to anyone who has positive things to say about a divorce. Can you imagine Focus saying this to a battered wife?
What is Focus on the Family trying to conceal? They are trying to conceal 30 years of research that shows that divorce can be good for children (and their parents) if it ends a highly toxic situation.
This video goes through 12 facts that Focus on the Family does NOT tell you about the good side of divorce for abuse/betrayal victims—all backed with academic research and studies.
Here is an article covering the same content and providing links to academic research AND to Focus's article. lifesavingdivorce.com/fotf12
Findings of Dr. Judith Wallerstein on kids and divorce: lifesavingdivorce.com/wallerstein.
Findings of Dr. Linda Waite on adults and unhappy marriages, and whether they get happier after 5 years: lifesavingdivorce.com/waite.
Does "God hate divorce"? Malachi 2:16 wasn't interpreted that way the first 2,100 years: lifesavingdivorce.com/malachi
Article with link to the original article on the Focus website. lifesavingdivorce.com/fotfbouchard
The Jaffee Study: Bad fathers (and bad mothers) are bad for kids, and may even predict conduct disorders in the children. lifesavingdivorce.com/jaffee
Biblical support for divorce for abuse, adultery, abandonment, and addictions: lifesavingdivorce.com/abuse-in-bible
Focus on the Family wants to make divorce legally harder for abuse victims to get even though divorce has been shown to save lives. Here's a link to the president Jim Daly discussing this with a guest. lifesavingdivorce.com/fotfnofault
Misleading Focus on the Family articles on kids and divorce, with a claim-by-claim critique:
A. lifesavingdivorce.com/fotfbisignano (Angela Bisignano)
B. lifesavingdivorce.com/fotfdivorce1 (Amy J. Desai)
----- ABOUT ----
Gretchen Baskerville is a Christian divorce recovery leader and researcher. Since 1998, she has worked in churches in the Los Angeles area. For more than 20 years she has worked with Christian women and men going through difficult, life-saving divorces, listening with compassion to those who have suffered from domestic violence, betrayal, infidelity, addicted partners, and emotional abuse.
Herself the survivor of a toxic marriage, she walked through her own lifesaving divorce and was a single mother for many years. Today she is happily remarried. She is a graduate of Wheaton College with a degree in Bible and Christian Education.
For more information:
Website http://www.LifeSavingDivorce.com.
Twitter twitter.com/GGBaskerville
Facebook facebook.com/gretchen.baskerville
Instagram instagram.com/gretchenbaskerville
You Tube Gretchen Baskerville’s channel youtube.com/channel/UCRgtUNfTlYIRDt8iOK6XPKQ
What's a Life-Saving Divorce? A Life-Saving Divorce is a divorce for serious reasons: a pattern of sexual immorality, physical abuse, chronic emotional abuse, domestic violence, felony behavior, life-destroying addictions, or abandonment/neglect.
How to Get the Book, "The Life-Saving Divorce: Hope for People Leaving Destructive Relationships"
Paperback Book/Kindle via Amazon: Paperback: amzn.to/3cF1j25 Or eBook: amzn.to/3CCBsnr As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Follow Gretchen Baskerville:
Subscribe to Gretchen's You Tube channel: youtube.com/channel/UCRgtUNfTlYIRDt8iOK6XPKQ
Facebook: facebook.com/gretchen.baskerville
Twitter: twitter.com/GGBaskerville
Instagram: instagram.com/gretchenbaskerville
Other helpful links
Website and Blog: LifeSavingDivorce.com
Top 50 Blog Posts by Topic: lifesavingdivorce.com/popular
Life-Saving Divorce Email Signup: LifeSavingDivorce.com/free
In one of their blog posts, Focus on the Family tells domestic violence victims that they should not talk to anyone who has positive things to say about a divorce. Can you imagine Focus saying this to a battered wife?
What is Focus on the Family trying to conceal? They are trying to conceal 30 years of research that shows that divorce can be good for children (and their parents) if it ends a highly toxic situation.
This video goes through 12 facts that Focus on the Family does NOT tell you about the good side of divorce for abuse/betrayal victims—all backed with academic research and studies.
Here is an article covering the same content and providing links to academic research AND to Focus's article. lifesavingdivorce.com/fotf12
Findings of Dr. Judith Wallerstein on kids and divorce: lifesavingdivorce.com/wallerstein.
Findings of Dr. Linda Waite on adults and unhappy marriages, and whether they get happier after 5 years: lifesavingdivorce.com/waite.
Does "God hate divorce"? Malachi 2:16 wasn't interpreted that way the first 2,100 years: lifesavingdivorce.com/malachi
Article with link to the original article on the Focus website. lifesavingdivorce.com/fotfbouchard
The Jaffee Study: Bad fathers (and bad mothers) are bad for kids, and may even predict conduct disorders in the children. lifesavingdivorce.com/jaffee
Biblical support for divorce for abuse, adultery, abandonment, and addictions: lifesavingdivorce.com/abuse-in-bible
Focus on the Family wants to make divorce legally harder for abuse victims to get even though divorce has been shown to save lives. Here's a link to the president Jim Daly discussing this with a guest. lifesavingdivorce.com/fotfnofault
Misleading Focus on the Family articles on kids and divorce, with a claim-by-claim critique:
A. lifesavingdivorce.com/fotfbisignano (Angela Bisignano)
B. lifesavingdivorce.com/fotfdivorce1 (Amy J. Desai)
----- ABOUT ----
Gretchen Baskerville is a Christian divorce recovery leader and researcher. Since 1998, she has worked in churches in the Los Angeles area. For more than 20 years she has worked with Christian women and men going through difficult, life-saving divorces, listening with compassion to those who have suffered from domestic violence, betrayal, infidelity, addicted partners, and emotional abuse.
Herself the survivor of a toxic marriage, she walked through her own lifesaving divorce and was a single mother for many years. Today she is happily remarried. She is a graduate of Wheaton College with a degree in Bible and Christian Education.
For more information:
Website http://www.LifeSavingDivorce.com.
Twitter twitter.com/GGBaskerville
Facebook facebook.com/gretchen.baskerville
Instagram instagram.com/gretchenbaskerville
You Tube Gretchen Baskerville’s channel youtube.com/channel/UCRgtUNfTlYIRDt8iOK6XPKQ
What's a Life-Saving Divorce? A Life-Saving Divorce is a divorce for serious reasons: a pattern of sexual immorality, physical abuse, chronic emotional abuse, domestic violence, felony behavior, life-destroying addictions, or abandonment/neglect.
How to Get the Book, "The Life-Saving Divorce: Hope for People Leaving Destructive Relationships"
Paperback Book/Kindle via Amazon: Paperback: amzn.to/3cF1j25 Or eBook: amzn.to/3CCBsnr As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Follow Gretchen Baskerville:
Subscribe to Gretchen's You Tube channel: youtube.com/channel/UCRgtUNfTlYIRDt8iOK6XPKQ
Facebook: facebook.com/gretchen.baskerville
Twitter: twitter.com/GGBaskerville
Instagram: instagram.com/gretchenbaskerville
Other helpful links
Website and Blog: LifeSavingDivorce.com
Top 50 Blog Posts by Topic: lifesavingdivorce.com/popular
Life-Saving Divorce Email Signup: LifeSavingDivorce.com/free
