Children add a new dynamic to every marriage, and adopting can bring challenges and rewards all its own. Parker Herring, an adoption attorney in Raleigh, NC, talks about the adoption process, what to expect, and what part adoption can play in marriage.
Parker also discusses her own experience with the adoption of her children, and what she learned from being the parent that she wouldn’t have known any other way.
If you would like more information about Parker, or adoption in general, you can visit the website of her domestic adoption agency, AChildsHope.com, which helps place the children of North Carolina birth mothers with couples in North Carolina seeking children.
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Bill and Pam Farrel join us to talk about their book, The 10 Best Decisions a Couple Can Make, and explain the importance of emotions and communication in making decisions for the good of your relationship.
The Farrels also discuss the importance of keeping a positive outlook regardless of the challenges your relationship faces, as well as how great an impact keeping a sense of humor, even in trying times, can have on your marriage.
The 10 Best Decisions a Couple Can Make is out now on Harvest House Publishers. Order it now
on Amazon. You can visit their website, FarrelCommunications.com for signed copies of this and other books, as well as more information about Bill and Pam’s CD sets and speaking engagements.
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Author and researcher Maggie Scarf joins us to discuss her latest book, September Songs: The Good News About Marriage in the Later Years. In the book, Maggie examines the “Bonus Years”, or 20+ years after 50 that increased life expectancy has created in the past few generations, and takes a look at how marital satisfaction increases during this phase.
Maggie covers communication, sex, problem solving, and financial issues that affect this stage of life and why it often doesn’t get the coverage it deserves, as well as what she describes as the “U-shaped curve” of marital happiness.
September Songs is out now on Riverhead Books. You can click here
to order it from Amazon.com, or visit Maggie’s website for more information, as well as her blog and other articles.
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