FamilyLife Blended® Minute

Preparing for Deployment

with Ron Deal | February 7, 2020
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Deployment is tough on marriages and families. Stepparents may be left caring for children without the legal authority to do so; custody arrangements may be challenged while a parent is deployed, and new stepparents can be left not knowing how to parent children according to the biological parent's wishes. So, how do you prepare? Our friends at The Military Ready Stepfamily, offer seminars and training for military stepfamilies and for chaplains. You're defending us. And we're defending you.

  • Show Notes

  • About the Host

  • About the Guest

  • Deployment is tough on marriages and families. Stepparents may be left caring for children without the legal authority to do so; custody arrangements may be challenged while a parent is deployed, and new stepparents can be left not knowing how to parent children according to the biological parent's wishes. So, how do you prepare? Our friends at The Military Ready Stepfamily, offer seminars and training for military stepfamilies and for chaplains. You're defending us. And we're defending you.

  • Ron Deal

    Ron L. Deal is one of the most widely read and viewed experts on blended families in the country. He is Director of FamilyLife Blended® for FamilyLife®, founder of Smart Stepfamilies™, and the author and Consulting Editor of the Smart Stepfamily Series of books including the bestselling Building Love Together in Blended Families: The 5 Love Languages® and Becoming Stepfamily Smart (with Dr. Gary Chapman), The Smart Stepfamily: 7 Steps to a Healthy Family, and Preparing to Blend. Ron is a licensed marriage and family therapist, popular conference speaker, and host of the FamilyLife Blended podcast. He and his wife, Nan, have three sons and live in Little Rock, Arkansas. Learn more at FamilyLife.com/blended.

How do you prepare your family for military deployment?