Strategies for Maintaining a Healthy Marriage or Partnership (While Raising Adopted, Foster, or Relative Children)

About this episode

This episode discusses strategies for maintaining a healthy marriage or partnership while raising children impacted by adoption, foster care, or kinship care.

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Raising kids impacted by adoption, foster care, or kinship care can do a number on your marriage or life partnership. Join us for a conversation with Jeremy & Jara Walden, authors of The Heart Work of Foster Care: A Hopeful and Honest Guide to Foster Parenting, about strategies to re-prioritize and strengthen your most significant relationship. In this episode, we discuss: How can raising kids together enhance a marriage or relationship? Why are kids in...

People in this episode

Guests: Jeremy Walden, Jara Walden

Topics covered

• marriage
• partnership
• adoption
• foster care
• kinship care
• parenting
• relationship strategies

Keywords

• healthy marriage
• foster parenting
• relationship enhancement
• adopted children
• kinship care
• parenting strategies

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Heart Work of Foster Care: A Hopeful and Honest Guide to Foster Parenting

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