July 13, 2026 · 50:49

“Voluntary familial estrangement” seems to have become a silent epidemic in our nation.

Marriage & Family

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0:00 - 15:00. Proverbs 1:8-16. God’s vision for family includes lifetime relationship maintenance. 15:00 - 31:00. “Volutnary familial estrangement” seems to have become a silent epidemic in our nation. 31:00 - 48:00. God’s designs for children’s and parents’ hearts to be turned toward each other. Satan seeks only to steal, kill, and destroy. Callers weigh in. | 1-800-326-4543 ext. 345 To donate call: 877-616-2396 Video Clip Links Estranged woman Dr. Joshua Coleman

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1:11as well in the screening room.
1:12And we are ready to rock and roll with today's edition
1:16of the program at this very moment.
1:18Many of you, if not most of you, are making your transition
1:22from your part-time jobs where you generate an income
1:25to your full-time jobs where you cultivate an outcome.
1:28And as you do so, I want to remind you to do so
1:31with intentionality, understanding the primacy that God places on family and welcoming his
1:40primacy to guide, to govern and to guard your engagement in your families. This is, this
1:47encouragement is pertinent today as you'll see as we go through today's program. As always,
1:56going to start in God's holy word, but we're going to delve into a topic that many professionals,
2:05mental health professionals are describing as a silent epidemic.
2:10And it is the phenomenon that is described as voluntary familial estrangement or estrangement,
2:18depending on who you're talking to, they may use more or less descriptors before they
2:22get to determine estrangement.
2:25But as we go through, you'll see this is something that is cutting directly against what God has
2:33ordained for families to be.
2:36So when I say God's word should guide and govern and guard our engagement, that includes the
2:48early formative years.
2:50If you are in a life stage as I am with young children in my home, my wife and I, all the
2:55way through to ladder stages when the scripture says and the Lord commands us to honor your
3:01father and mother, that is not something that says honor your father and mother while you're
3:06an adolescent or while you're a teenager.
3:10But this is a command that is a continuing command and contrary to the world, now let me
3:15say something before I can continue on that, it doesn't express the state how you are to
3:19do so but the honoring is a heart disposition, is a condition of the heart that will ultimately
3:24impact conduct and engagement and there is a concerted effort that frankly I believe it
3:38is demonic and it's Genesis that is tearing at families and tearing relationships apart
3:47and we're going to get into it a bit during today's program.
3:53So if you are listening to this program, certainly this is one you're going to want to share.
3:58But I encourage you to listen up because we want to examine the facts, a bit of the data,
4:03but most importantly, what does God's Word say and how should we engage thereafter?
4:09So as you are making your transition to your full-time jobs, let's be intentional about
4:15it.
4:16It's a deception to think that nothing is going on and oh, well, it's not that big of a deal
4:23and we just drift forward and allow ourselves to inhale and exhale the next
4:28year, you know, 10, 20 years have passed by.
4:31And we don't recognize what may or may not have transpired.
4:39This is also a day and we may get into this a bit more.
4:42I'm sure most of you know by now that Senator Lindsey Graham passed away over
4:46the weekend and the governor of South Carolina has now named his sister,
4:52which Lindsey Graham as a young man in his early 20s,
4:56adopted as a result of their parents having passed away
5:03earlier in their lives.
5:08So that is, it's never an easy thing
5:16when you have that kind of,
5:17when you have, when there's loss that takes place,
5:19and how that impacts others.
5:22And I'm not planning to get into this now,
5:27But it's grieving and sad to me to see just how much our capacity for humanity seems to
5:40have been degraded in our society to where people's sickness permeates even through times
5:47of mourning.
5:48And it's just, pardon me, maybe I'm old school, I'm not told you've always been told
5:53I haven't old soul, but I'm from the block where my parents taught me, even if we don't
5:59person, you see a funeral possession going on and you pull over on the side of the road
6:03and you
6:05are out of the fact that this is a fellow bearer of God's image
6:09who has made the
6:11inescapable transition, the inescapable transition.
6:18It's appointed unto man once to die and then the judgment.
6:22That's a sobering thing in my estimation.
6:27Because there's no there's no do-overs, no back-seas.
6:30That's it.
6:33So the word of God we go, Proverbs, chapter one is where we want to begin the program.
6:36Proverbs, chapter one, verses eight through 16 is where I want to begin.
6:40Proverbs, chapter one, just jump right into it for the sake of time.
6:49The book of Proverbs is wisdom literature.
6:50In chapter one verse eight reads like this, here, my son, your father's instruction.
6:58And for sake not your mother's teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and
7:03dependence for your neck. My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent. If they say, come
7:11with us, let us lie and wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without reason. Like
7:19she'll let us swallow them alive and whole, like those who go down to the pit. We shall
7:25find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with plunder. Throw in your lot among
7:30us. We will have one purse. My son do not walk in the way with them. Hold back your foot from
7:38their past for their feet run to evil and they make haste to shed blood." The verses that we just
7:49read from chapter one of the book of Proverbs in vision, the council provided to a son by a father
7:56and a mother. My son here, give heed, listen, receive, take seriously, ingest, focus your heart
8:07and mind to your father's instruction. My son, do not forsake your mother's teaching.
8:15It presents a picture of a father and mother jointly engaged and cultivating the heart and mind
8:23of a young man, of a son, who will be reared in an environment of wisdom.
8:30One of the major features of this environment of wisdom and what is
8:36communicated is in these verses 12 all the way to verse 16.
8:42It's in order for the son to have the benefit of being cultivated in an
8:48environment of wisdom. One of the first characteristics that the son will
8:51develop is a refusal to follow the crowd, is a refusal to be men pleasers. And when you look at
9:00those two qualities, guys, they are intrinsic to being disciples of Jesus Christ. There is no way
9:08we can be disciples of our Lord, and while at the exact same time, we are crowd followers. I've said
9:16time and time again on the program, the call to be a Christ follower, a call to be a disciple,
9:21is a call to live the narrow road. We don't visit the narrow road. That's where we live.
9:27That's where we live. We recognize the wisdom of our Lord's instruction when it says broad is the
9:32road to damnation. Narrow is the way for the redeemed, for the peculiar. You cannot be a narrow
9:41road warrior and be a man pleaser and be a man pleaser. Cannot do it. Cannot do it. Contrary to
9:59popular practice in our society. I've said this as well on the show.
10:02By God's divine providence and sovereign grace, He's made me my children's father.
10:07I will be my children's father for the rest of my life, Lord willing, and the rest of their lives.
10:13Our relationship dynamics will change, no doubt about it.
10:18But when my children hit, there's nothing magical about my children turning the age of 18.
10:23Then now all of a sudden, my care and concern for them has adjusted.
10:27No, no, that hasn't changed at all.
10:29Though they may be of the legal age of majority in our country, I'm still my children's father.
10:36And my children will always be my children.
10:39Even as they grow and mature.
10:42And even when Lord willing, and this is something my wife and I are looking forward to when we
10:45hit the grandparents stage, I ain't been there but I heard a show is good.
10:51Heard about it.
10:54But our society works over time just to cut right to the chase to eviscerate familial bonds,
11:01generally speaking.
11:03I've explained before how one of the major thesis from Karl Marx's communist manifesto,
11:09he and Frederick Ingalls, was to create this notion of children of the state.
11:13The way to do that is that you sever the parent child relationship at the earliest stage
11:17as possible.
11:21Then we're going to dig into it a little bit and I'm not trying to shade anybody, condemn
11:26anybody.
11:27I know there are variables that affect everybody's lives and families differently.
11:31I alluded to this once.
11:34I'm not going to go into any detail here.
11:35I'm in a life stage in addition to having young children that I'm caring for my parents
11:39as well, my parents.
11:42My parents, and not to be surprised, the word of God has something specific to say about
11:50that.
11:53But there's a phenomenon that's ascended to it largely in our society.
11:58We have adult children who will kind of stick their parents in a home somewhere and really
12:04live as if they don't remember them or they're not aware of them, but I don't have any concern
12:10for them.
12:11And like I said, I understand their life circumstances, their realities,
12:15they're all kind of variables that contribute to that, but I will simply add this encouragement.
12:19Have we considered what the word of God says how responsibilities may be?
12:28And there are continual efforts, and I've already mentioned it, I'm going to dig into it
12:33when we start this next segment, but there's a phenomenon now of familial astrangement
12:38to where you have adult children who are severing relationship and contact with their parents.
12:47I said it's a silent epidemic because there are lots of factors that contribute, but there's lots of shame and pain related to it.
12:58And you have people that don't know what to do.
13:00Oftentimes the instances occur with no warning.
13:05You know, all of a sudden I was talking to my daughter the other day, and now there's no contact.
13:11there's no contact.
13:14And then to add insult to injury, if you will,
13:17there is kind of an online phenomenon
13:23to where the quote unquote, going no contact
13:27is affirmed as an expression of personal growth.
13:31Yes, yes, if you have the wherewithal,
13:34if you implement a no contact with your toxic parents,
13:39then that is a sign that you are growing,
13:41you see, because you are committed
13:43to protecting your peace and your mental health.
13:45And I'm just like, once again, I understand
13:50that some circumstances where there's history
13:52of maybe physical abuse or, you know,
13:56chemical dependencies and things of that nature,
13:59you know, I grew up, I know what it's like to see,
14:04you know, drug addicts walking up and down the street
14:06at high rates of speed at the time
14:09where people should be asleep, you know?
14:13So I know there's some reality there,
14:15but what you're going to find is that this,
14:17when I'm going to share with you that as this is a relatively new phenomenon,
14:22the studies show that there was a pretty significant spike in this area,
14:29starting at about 2016.
14:31Hmm. 2015, 2016.
14:34I wonder what happened in 2015, 2016.
14:36Anybody want to fancy a guess?
14:45We're going to get into it.
14:47But what you see already, I hope you see,
14:50is that this notion of voluntary family estrangement
14:53looks a whole lot different than,
14:56here, my son, your father's instruction,
14:58and for a sake knock, your mother's teaching.
15:01Let's get into it.
15:09A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
15:11The Word of God is the sword of the Spirit,
15:13according to Ephesians 6 17.
15:16Every disciple of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,
15:18needs to be a diligent student of the Word of God.
15:21We would be wise to continually learn more about the spiritual weapons
15:25found in the Word of God, we must continually learn more about how to do battle with every
15:29spiritual weapon.
15:30Because spiritual conflict is not something we deal with from only time to time.
15:34We encounter spiritual warfare every day and everywhere we go.
15:38When we put these spiritual weapons to work, we're building up the kingdom of God.
15:44Also, as we use these weapons, we're doing battle against the kingdom of darkness.
15:50Some people may think, I don't like the idea of having to deal with spiritual warfare.
15:53Well, like it or not, we face it every day of our lives.
15:56Let's be faithful to be kingdom warriors who know how to take some of the weapons we have
16:01in the Word of God and use them to walk in victory daily.
16:12Shiving lightning to the darkness, this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
16:19Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here.
16:23I've already alluded to what I'm going to be talking about.
16:27I guess I should mention we're looking forward to this upcoming week.
16:33We'll be doing several programs from the arc where we'll be participating in the
16:39Culture Proof 2026 Conference.
16:41Looking forward to that.
16:43We'll be there later this week.
16:45It's going to be an amazing time there.
16:47Hope you guys tune in.
16:49We have several programs lined up.
16:52And look, I'm not going to give it away.
16:55I just think you probably want to tune in.
16:58But I've already kind of set up the conversation I want to have today because this is something
17:03that I've been reading on. I've had conversations with people anecdotally. And I've found that this
17:12was not happening in a vacuum, but this is something that is happening all around the country,
17:19yet there are not as many public conversations about it. And my hope is through is that as a
17:27result of bringing this issue into the light and we are able to examine it in light of the
17:33truth of God's word that it will provide some comfort and some consolation for those who are
17:41struggling in these areas because as the phenomenon is occurring and as has been described,
17:49a military familial, voluntary familial astrangement.
17:53Frankly, it's given cause for the enemy
17:56to wreak havoc in families, man.
18:00Families are being torn apart by this.
18:03And the data, it's something that has not been chronicled
18:08as ubiquitously as I believe it will be as the years continue.
18:15But in the bit of data that's available currently,
18:19most of it points to now this is I'm saying most not all most of it points to a precipitous uptick in this
18:26self-described voluntary estrangement
18:29Well, not self-described this described voluntary estrangement at about 2016 and you'll recall in 2016
18:37That was when president Trump
18:40much to the shock of those in New York that he
18:46He sent she who shall never be president packing.
18:51Many have said, including, let me be clear, he's the most qualified candidate to run for
18:57the presidency.
18:58But the American people said, not so fast, my friend.
19:02Well, that tends to be the date where there's been a precipitous uptick in familial estrangement.
19:09And like I said, there are circumstances where there's abuse, physical abuse, sometimes sexual
19:14abuse.
19:15all kinds of variables that have impacted it, but what's happening
19:192016 going forward is something that's relatively new in our national history
19:23to where people are citing political disagreements and
19:28religious disagreements as a basis for this and increasing numbers.
19:34So let me give you a little bit of the data across the spectrum.
19:39There's data in this publication called Psychology Today.
19:45There's data from London, Europe, it's happening pretty much in the West that shows about 27%
19:57of adults, younger adults have completely severed contact with relationship and severed contact
20:10from their parents.
20:12In some instances, this contact is not perpetual and many of them, they are perpetual.
20:19Others are likely, more likely than mothers to suffer this
20:25estrangement.
20:26And when there are circumstances when mothers are estranged from
20:30their children, often there is a re-establishment of relationship.
20:35One of the professionals who have done a bit of study in this
20:41area is Dr. Joshua Coleman.
20:43And he's a psychologist and he was written a book addressing
20:47this phenomenon in a book titled When Parents Hurt.
20:52He's also written a book titled Rules of Engagement.
20:55I want to give you a sense of what I'm talking about
20:57when I describe voluntary familial estrangement.
21:00Here, this brief clip from Dr. Joshua Coleman,
21:04it's clip number seven, clip seven, go.
21:07Well, from my perspective, I think
21:10it's a kind of silent epidemic.
21:12In there was a study recently done
21:14that show that one out of four fathers is estranged
21:17from an adult child, they're 22%,
21:20even more likely to be estranged from a daughter.
21:24That same studies found 6% of mothers are estranged from a child,
21:28but other studies have put it closer to 10 to 15%,
21:31which is where I would put it.
21:33So a lot of parents are being estranged today.
21:36And they're also being estranged for reasons
21:38that weren't really in existence in the past.
21:42So certainly weren't common political differences, particularly in the United States.
21:49Whereas the glue that kept families together through millennia on a by mother and a father
21:54respect that elders, families forever, that's been largely replaced by much more identitarian
22:02perspective.
22:03If a relationship doesn't feel good to me, then not only can I cut that person off, I should
22:07cut that person off, protection of mental health has become a big priority. So there's
22:13a lot of adult children who are cutting off parents, certainly for reasons of abuse and
22:18neglect. But also for reasons that are much more psychological, much more subtle, much
22:23more political. And that really is causing a lot of disruption in the families.
22:33Did you hear what he said? You know, the things that used to hold our families together,
22:40Things like honor your father and mother, respect your elders.
22:54You guys are listening to the show, honor your father and mother.
22:56That's not really a cultural creed.
22:58That's straight out of the Bible.
23:03I've been talking about the prevalence of biblical illiteracy in our society.
23:07You'll see through this that biblical illiteracy has real relational consequences that you have
23:21an old notion, honor your father and mother, but that's not a notion that is today. The
23:27overwhelming majority of instances of familial estrangement are the result of the adult child
23:35severing relationship and contact with the parent. It doesn't happen in the reverse by
23:42and large. And again, I'm sure you kind of have an idea already what I'm talking about.
23:48those who may not have seen things like that. Here's a short clip because what's happening
23:53with this silent epidemic. I'm saying it silent because people are not expressing publicly
23:59the pain that they're enduring from this, especially the parents who are suffering pain
24:05from this. And it's caused many parents to be unwilling to speak the truth because they
24:11are afraid of speaking the truth to their own adult children because they're afraid of
24:15the consequences relationally with their adult children,
24:18some instances.
24:19But because of the attachment, and the data also
24:23shows that family estrangement, it's not unusual for it
24:30to begin as a result of the adult child seeking psychotherapy.
24:39As you have some instances where counselors are encouraging,
24:43encouraging the adult children to sever the relationship with their parents.
24:53This is wild and in many instances you have online support groups that are developing that
24:59have scores of members that there are support groups for adult children who have cut off
25:06relationship and contact from their parents.
25:12And it's being lauded as almost like a badge of honor that it's an expression of personal
25:19growth.
25:21If you have the courage to cut off these toxic family members.
25:25Here's an example of what I'm talking about in terms of some of the things that are being
25:29stated.
25:32Listen to and watch clip number five, clip five, go.
25:36I want to just jump on here really quickly for anyone who's dealing with toxic parents,
25:41narcissistic parents is an estranged adult child.
25:45I want to talk about how difficult it is to make that decision to go no contact and to
25:49stay no contact.
25:51For many of us who have had those very toxic, very narcissistic parents in our lives, you
25:55typically go through a very long period of time of deciding when and where is it time
26:00to go no contact.
26:01To be clear, the first time I went no contact with my mom, this was maybe 15 years ago,
26:05so it was before it was a fad.
26:07So this whole topic of conversation that children are just doing this to their parents
26:11because it's a fad is very obnoxious to me.
26:14Usually these decisions are made because there has been attempt after attempt after attempt
26:19to please please please parents be just healthy people in my life and then their constant refusal
26:25to do so.
26:26Even when you make that decision it's not a static decision.
26:29It doesn't stay that way forever.
26:32Sometimes you might decide to go low contact, sometimes you might decide to reestablish contact.
26:38These types of conversations didn't used to happen in our country.
26:43One of the benchmarks of developing into healthy adults was being able to resolve disagreements
26:51in a healthy manner.
26:54Some of you remember when I first got a glimpse of this, I guess I would say prior to the 2024
27:03election, when I was getting notices from people saying, yes, I'm severing a relationship
27:07with my family because they vote differently from me.
27:10And I said on this show, I said, what?
27:13When did that become a thing to do?
27:17I mean, maybe I'm narrow minded,
27:20but I know all kinds of families that you have people
27:23that voted differently, but that didn't change.
27:25Well, they were still family.
27:27It was absurd to me.
27:30I'll show you another one.
27:32Here's a man saying he cut off his family.
27:36And I don't know his background.
27:37He didn't go into a lot,
27:38some of the factual details as to what led
27:40to his decision, but he was wearing it as a badge of honor
27:42that he refused to even go to his dead father's funeral.
27:46Like it's a matter of protest.
27:47Like, what are we doing here?
27:50Like, okay, you're a protest, you're gonna protest
27:52and let me just let you hear the clips.
27:56Clip number six, clip six, go.
27:59And I'm gonna trauma dump here a little bit,
28:01so buckle up.
28:02I didn't talk to my father the last 10 years of his life
28:04and when he died, I didn't go to his funeral.
28:06And I had many family members reach out to me privately
28:09and talk about how disappointing it was,
28:11about how much I am the one that was harming the family
28:13by not showing up, by me not showing up to a service
28:16to listen to a bunch of people talking about
28:18how great this person was when we well all knew he wasn't.
28:26That's an example of what I'm talking about.
28:34I mean, he didn't talk to his father for the last 10 years
28:39of his life and then didn't go to his funeral.
28:41Like these are things that are happening guys.
28:46And I'm gonna get to it.
28:47And now I wanna tell you now,
28:49So we're going to open the phone lines in this segment and I'm not asking anybody to
28:54you know, to air the details, whatever's going on in their lives.
28:58But I really want to get an idea from our audience here how prevalent it may be that our folks
29:07have been touched by this.
29:09So what I want to do is invite you to call and the number is 888-589.
29:15We'll start this next segment.
29:16give the number now 888-589-8840.
29:23And I want to invite you to share this something
29:25that you've experienced either directly or someone
29:28within close proximity to you, that there's
29:31been an estrangement of relationship
29:33to where there's a cessation of contact and relationship
29:36with parents because of political disagreements,
29:40because of cultural issues.
29:45There was one thing that developed.
29:47And, you know, when you have just to be real, the White House
29:50lying and saying that Schmovit is the pandemic of the unvaccinated
29:54when the data says the exact opposite.
29:57And you have families who literally have separated over that dating all
30:00the way back to 2020, 2019.
30:03And because of different opinions concerning Schmovit and the injections
30:09to vaccine to not vaccine and all of these things to where they've
30:14They've eliminated, interminated relationship with one another.
30:18And the reason why I'm bringing this up and I want to know from our audience,
30:26if this is something that you're confronting or have been confronted with,
30:30is because with everything the Word of God tells us Romans 12,
30:36that we are not to be conformed to this world but to be transformed
30:40by the renewing of our minds, that we are to examine the thing that transpires,
30:45that transpire under the white, hot scrutiny of God's holy word.
30:49One of the things that immediately came to my mind as I was studying this,
30:54as James 1-7 talks about
30:58pure religion, what is pure religion, pure and undefiled religion,
31:02take care for widows and orphans. And I've mentioned this on the show before.
31:06Sometimes people take that scripture and run with it, but you don't realize that the Lord has
31:10provided us additional clarity and qualification even on
31:14That notion, and to see what I'm talking about there,
31:19first Timothy five gives us wisdom
31:22because the ecclesiastical responsibility for the church
31:27to care for widows and orphans is not a general duty
31:31for all widows.
31:33The Lord gives us additional clarity
31:35through the Apostle Paul to explain what are
31:38and who are widows indeed or who are those
31:41who are truly widows.
31:42And I'll just start it now.
31:43Now I'll just read the text, first Timothy chapter five,
31:47verses three through seven, I'm sorry, verses three through 10,
31:49I'll read it and we got a break coming up
31:52and then we'll get into it a little bit more
31:54and then we'll open the phone lines.
31:55But the word of God says this,
31:57honor widows who are truly widows or widows indeed.
32:00But if a widow has children or grandchildren,
32:04let them first learn to show godliness to their own household
32:09and to make some return to their parents
32:12for this is pleasing in the sight of God.
32:15She who is truly a widow left all alone
32:18has set her hope on God and continues
32:20and supplications and prayers night and day.
32:23But she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.
32:27Command these things as well
32:28so that they may be without reproach.
32:31But if anyone does not provide for his relatives
32:34and especially for members of his household,
32:36he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
32:41you'll see right away from the text that the scripture
32:48presumes and anticipates the first line of care for a mom as
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32:57passed away is her own children and grandchildren.
32:59There's an assumption and expectation of preserved and
33:02maintained relationship generationally.
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34:27has now been replaced by a man-centered ethic
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34:33Unquote.
34:34Psalm 2 gives the solution going forward.
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35:18Back to the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio.
35:23Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton
35:26the third here.
35:28I read this text because in the body of Christ,
35:33this text should be as readily accessible to us
35:36as the James 127 reference to pure religion and under file
35:39just caring for widows and orphans.
35:41We should immediately be able to connect that to the reality
35:47that the biblical responsibility for the church
35:50is to care for widows and orphans who do not have children
35:53and grandchildren as immediately available to them.
35:58Now I know that it's contrary to a lot of our practice
36:01and understanding and unfortunately I believe it's
36:05because of the prevalence of biblical illiteracy,
36:07but a part of our discipleship should include the cultivation of younger disciples as we're
36:14growing through the various stages of maturing in Christ, that there is a biblical expectation
36:20and anticipation of us to care for our parents as they're aging.
36:30Some of you as you're listening to me, you'll recall that the whole notion of aging parents
36:37remaining in their homes until the Lord calls them home was something that's far more common
36:41about a generation ago.
36:44But because our families have been attacked so consistently and some attacks are so subtle
36:49that we don't even recognize them as attacks, and this is one of them I would argue this
36:52is a strange thing that's happening.
36:55But the scripture has an anticipation as I read just a few moments ago, but if a widow
37:01has children or grandchildren, let them, the children and grandchildren, first learn to
37:07show godliness, not merely be godly, but to show godliness to their own household.
37:12What that presumes is a preservation and a maintenance of relationship generationally.
37:22But as you can see, if the phenomenon of voluntary estrangement continues, well, this
37:30will completely continue.
37:32This concept from the scripture will deteriorate into non-existence.
37:36And this is an example also, which you've heard me say, that if you examine the expansion
37:40of the Leviathan state, it's corresponded with retrenchments in the family, where we've
37:44back the way in family life, it's resulted in an ever expanding behemoth in government.
37:54Social safety net, anyone?
37:57God's designed for the social safety net was supposed to come through the family.
38:01Not through the government.
38:04You see what I'm saying?
38:06So the Lord's heart is articulated as the book of Malachi is closing that the hearts of the
38:12fathers will be turned to the children.
38:14The hearts of the children are turned to the fathers.
38:18our society and the spirit of the ages working in every way to eviscerate that.
38:23In much of it is cultivated started as the earliest ages possible, sever the pan-child
38:28relationship, usher the children into being comfortable with being children of the state,
38:32have little babies being made comfortable being away from mom and dad as early as possible.
38:41We train our children to be comfortable to be away from family for the majority of their
38:45waking hours.
38:48Is any surprise then when a generation has been
38:50discipled into that framework that it continues on
38:53into the latter life stages?
38:55Do y'all see what I'm saying?
38:56Or am I making something up?
39:04And many of you as you're listening to me,
39:07you may very well fall into that group of people
39:09who man, yeah, this is happening,
39:11but you don't know what to do about it.
39:13You feel the pain and the shame sometimes
39:16if you're the parent, you're thinking,
39:18what did I do wrong?
39:19How did I go wrong to cause this kind of thing to happen?
39:22and you just use you suffer in silence.
39:28And sometimes the adult child who is unfortunate
39:32is to come to much of the Maslow self-acculation talk
39:43will seek to establish quote unquote family everywhere else.
39:50And act as if, well, this is just as good,
39:53when deep, deep down, you know deep, deep down
39:56that this is not right.
39:59Again, I'm not talking about the variable circumstances
40:02where there are genuine instances of abuse and things
40:07in that nature, but I'm talking in a more general sense
40:09where people are bringing a Gensu knife
40:13to their families over cultural disagreements,
40:15political disagreements, stuff that's in the news,
40:17we have two different opinions on.
40:18And so instead of engaging in debate,
40:20even if the conclusion is, well, you have that perspective,
40:24I have a different perspective, but we love one another.
40:33So we're gonna open the phone lines 888-589,
40:378A40 is the number to call and I want to invite you to,
40:40and I want to see really,
40:41is this something that you're experiencing
40:43and this people in this audience,
40:44whether or not you're experiencing it
40:46or somebody close to you is experiencing it.
40:48And if you're willing to share,
40:49I'm not trying to get in your business
40:50to get you to expose your business at all.
40:52But if you're willing to share what's the thing
40:53that was the genesis of the estrangement phenomenon
40:59that you're experiencing or those closer you experiencing,
41:01I want to welcome you to share that with us.
41:02To the phone lines we go, we'll start in Mississippi
41:05where Joseph is on the line.
41:06Joseph, thank you for calling the Hamilton corner.
41:07Welcome to the program.
41:09Hey, I'm taking my call and I just want to say thanks
41:12for AFR for doing what you guys are doing
41:15and for claiming.
41:18I just want to do a short summary of what's been going on
41:21in my situation.
41:22So my own data divorce,
41:24both alcohol problems and drug problems.
41:28And I've recently started a family with a two year old
41:30little girl and it's just hard to communicate with someone
41:35that that's going through like that because for me in my house we will serve the Lord.
41:41And so just the communication right there is hard. Of course I never, yeah, and I still
41:47love my parents. Don't get me wrong. I mean, they give me life. But at the end of the day,
41:54you know, it's hard to draw that line for the new family that I've started.
41:59On this, Joseph, thank you so much for your call and your comments. I understand exactly
42:03where you're coming from.
42:05And in your situation, there are chemical dependency issues that impact the way you would interact
42:14with your family.
42:15But I don't hear from you saying with some of these chest pounding, the strangers are saying,
42:24you're saying it with a bit of lament, you're saying it with a bit of grief.
42:29You're not saying it like with a chest pounding, you know, drum, marching band, drum major, high
42:37stepping across the 50 yard line, you're saying it with a lament and a concern and a grief.
42:42And that's a very real phenomenon.
42:44You know, you're endeavoring to raise your family and to cultivate Christ following in your home
42:49and the features of the alcoholism are things that present challenges there.
42:55Man, I understand that.
42:57I understand that and these are the types of things that we should lift up to the Lord in prayer.
43:01And that will be a bit different than these people who are removing themselves from or
43:08severing relationship with their parents because of political disagreements.
43:12That will be a bit different.
43:13But thank you for your call and your comment.
43:15We'll stay in Mississippi and go next to Joy who is on the line.
43:18Joy, thank you for calling the Hamilton Corner.
43:20Welcome to the program.
43:21Thank you.
43:22I just love your program and AFR for all that they do for us.
43:27rockin' awesome.
43:29To get to it quick, I have a cousin
43:31who raised a boy and a girl, a boy being the older
43:37when the kids were in about,
43:39and she homeschooled them, by the way.
43:41When a kid's got to graduating high school
43:46just before that, her husband decided
43:49that he really was a homestead people.
43:51And so he divorced her and went off with his lover.
43:56But then insisted on, let's still be a family.
43:59And so she is really, I don't know how she does it,
44:04make sure that they all have family meals together
44:07and be a nice big, and she is remarried.
44:10And we're just one big happy family.
44:12That being said, about probably about 2016,
44:16both of those kids said,
44:18no mom, we're not having anything to do with you anymore.
44:21And it was over political stuff.
44:23Although they had been, you know, family meals and everything.
44:29To the extent I talked to her recently and her son has two children.
44:33He's married, the daughter isn't married yet.
44:36And she, the Christmas present, she sent to the children.
44:40He said, don't bother sending anything, we just throw them away.
44:43So she has no relationship anymore with her grandchildren over this.
44:49And it's exactly what you're talking about.
44:51breaks my heart. My kids, I mean, these kids are now in there early to mid 30s. And they're
44:58not, my kids are just behind them and they're late, you know, mid to late 20s. So that's just
45:08frightening. Wow. And she is so heartbroken. She is just so very heartbroken. Joy, thank
45:16you for sharing that. That's exactly what I'm talking about. This type of heartbreak is
45:19happening but it's not being discussed publicly very often. For the sake of trying to get to
45:25all the people we'll call and we'll try to keep moving a bit. We'll go next to Kansas
45:29to where Ruth is on the line. Ruth, thank you for calling the Hamilton Corner. Welcome
45:32to the program. Well, thank you so much for your program. I really do enjoy it and I learned so much
45:38from it. I think it's terrible that they would separate themselves from their family that way.
45:44It used to be families lived together. There'd be the grandparents and the parents and the children
45:49all right there in the same house together for years. And I know my great, great, my great aunt
45:55and my great uncle, they had a problem because one was a Democrat, one was a Republican. And the
46:01only problem they really had was on voting day. She refused to ride with him to the voting booth.
46:10And that's the only problem they had. So I just think it's terrible. They would totally separate
46:17themselves from their families or parents who may need them.
46:20Well said Ruth and it's funny you said that but they still live together.
46:25They didn't ride together on the voting day but they lived together.
46:30Back to the phone lines we go next to Ohio where Ms. D is on the line.
46:34Mrs. D is on the line.
46:36Is it Mrs. D?
46:37Mrs. D. Mrs. D.
46:39Mrs. D. Thank you for calling the program.
46:41Go right ahead.
46:42I can't believe I'm talking to Abraham Hamilton.
46:46I look so forward to your program every evening at six o'clock.
46:50I'm in Ohio in the Eastern Eastern time zone.
46:56Oh, thank you so much for that.
46:57I want this.
46:59This is a very much needed program.
47:02And the Lord put on my heart at the end of May.
47:06I know of eight families, one being my own.
47:10In this case, it's a daughter in law, not in my natural child, my son's wife,
47:15who have a child that's estranged from them.
47:19Most of these people are Christian people that I've known through the years in different churches.
47:25And I was inspired, perhaps the Lord inspired me to write a letter to each of these and ask them to agree with me in prayer
47:35to break this stronghold of Satan.
47:39It's heated the enemy, not the children.
47:43And for Second Corinthians 10, 4 says,
47:46the weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world,
47:50but on the contrary, we have divine power
47:53to demolish the strongholds.
47:55So we're all agreeing together for our families
47:58that there will be a breaking down and a return to fellowship.
48:05Well said, Mrs. D. And it's so important
48:08that we don't endeavor to try to navigate this solely in the flesh, but that we utilize it,
48:13the violently powerful weapons that God has made available to us.
48:16Well said, we'll go next to Arkansas where Aaron is on the line.
48:19Aaron, thank you for calling the Hamilton Corner.
48:21Go right ahead.
48:23Thank you, Abraham.
48:29I'm calling my wife and I have four sons and our two oldest have done no contact.
48:35Mm.
48:36I take responsibility and say that in their use and all the light of my ways and the
48:53attention repair for many years and thought that everything seemed to be great.
48:58And then, quite honestly, around the time of the last victory, things really turned.
49:10And it has been poised up, but it is cultural and political alignment.
49:17It's really hard to grab and you're right.
49:22It's not spoken of because there is a lot of shame
49:25and just unknown.
49:30Some of it seems to be a financial expectation
49:36that goes along with that.
49:37Like some sort of retribution.
49:41But it's a very difficult silence today.
49:45Aaron, thank you for calling.
49:46We got a lot of what you said.
49:47The call was going in and out.
49:49Man, we have so many people holding up
49:51wish we could get to everybody.
49:52but one thing I hope that we all see
49:54that this is something that is happening.
49:57And I want to remind everybody that the God
50:00that we serve is a restorer.
50:02So the first thing I want to encourage every single one
50:04of you who have called and those who are holding
50:07and those who would say I could have called,
50:09but I didn't call is to refuse to give up
50:13on your families in prayer,
50:15but to bring it to the Lord as a matter of prayer,
50:18as a matter of first and foremost urgency.
50:21And the Lord will give wisdom and revelation as to how we ought to respond, because just
50:26as there are many of these calls, I've heard many examples of where the Lord has restored
50:32relationships.
50:33But we need to expose the enemy's work in his effort to sever family in this manner.
50:40The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American
50:45Family Association or American Family Radio.

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