While this would tax any parent, it threatened to overwhelm this single mother of two. Nowhere is the battle being waged more fiercely than in homes led by single parents. Some time ago, another woman named Susan, single parent of four children aged 11 to 16, admitted that although her biggest challenge is finances, her greatest pain comes from sensing how embittered and betrayed her children feel because their father left them to live with his secretary. Finally, I recently spoke with Stanley. After his divorce, Stanley's weight plummeted 50 pounds as he battled a depression that left him crippled as a parent.
Families everywhere are under siege.
Yet nowhere is the battle being waged more fiercely than in homes led by single parents. The answer may not be as distant as we think. In fact, it is well within the grasp of hands folded in prayer. I am convinced that God is calling parents everywhere to take up spiritual arms for their children. Indeed, I believe that today's mothers and fathers must become impassioned interceders in prayer prayer warriors if we are to have any chance of raising children who are spiritually, emotionally and physically whole.