About FocusontheFamily.com

If there's one word that sums up the essence of Focus on the Family, it is commitment. Using time-tested, Biblical principles and common sense, our founder Dr. James Dobson opened the doors of Focus on the Family with a commitment to helping families worldwide.

Whatever your role in the family – as a mother or father, husband or wife, son or daughter – we're committed to discerning your needs and doing all we can to meet them.

You have a friend at Focus on the Family. And please: if something comes up, if you have any questions, or you need our help, don't hesitate to contact us right away. 1-800-A-FAMILY is our number. Besides contacting us directly, you can also find Focus on the Family online at www.focusonthefamily.com.

On our Web site, we hope we can meet your needs by providing articles, resources and help in six different channels: parenting, relationships and marriage, life challenges, faith, entertainment and social issues. Here's a glimpse of what you can find online:

Parenting

Raising children isn't easy. Rewarding? Yes. Easy? Well, hardly ever. You bring to parenting all of your love, learning, hope and experiences. And your kids bring joy, love, mind-boggling defiance and willfulness. Your best intentions sometimes aren't enough when you're dealing with battles at mealtimes and bedtimes, or embarrassing public scenes at the store, or an ongoing argument between your little angels. You react. They react. You're tired. They're energized. And you know there must be a better way. You want to be the best parent you can be. We want to make that possible for you.

In our parenting channel you can find resources about:

• Health and Safety
• Schooling
• Blended Families
• Child Development
• Parenting Stages
• Discipline

Relationships and Marriage

Before and after you say "I do," you have hopes and expectations for your marriage. But then you find out that those moments of intense and satisfying partnership are often thwarted by your day-to-day obligations, personality conflicts, and even a misunderstanding of how your spouse thinks and feels.

Guess what? You're not alone.

At Focus on the Family, we know that a lasting love takes effort. But it doesn't have to be difficult every step of the way. You can have fun. You can turn those times of struggle into times of rich connectedness. You can rekindle the spark of your relationship again and again. You can share deeply in your similarities and celebrate the wonder of your differences.

How? Through the many programs and products Focus on the Family has created for marriages just like yours – created by the best counselors, experts and advisers who want to help you achieve a strong and happy marriage.

Our Relationships and Marriage channel on focusonthefamily.com can also help you when you're getting married, struggling with your in-laws, sex and intimacy, financesand many other struggles couples face.

Life Challenges

Life doesn't always work out the way we planned. Loved ones get sick. Parents get older and face unexpected physical and mental issues. Bad decisions are made with money that wreck financial stability. A spouse strays – maybe even walks out. There are addictions with drugs or porn. Violence comes in unexpected ways or from someone you trusted. The things you used to be so sure about are suddenly unclear and confusing. You feel isolated and alone. You've fallen into a black hole that you don't know how to get out of.

Or maybe the hard times haven't come, but you want to be prepared in case they do.

Focus on the Family is here to guide you through those difficult days. With our ongoing help by phone, or through our counseling referral services, you can count on us to help you deal confidentially with the many bumps in your road. No strings attached.

You can also find help in focusonthefamily.com's Life Challenges channel. If you're struggling with your emotional health, a relationship, a life transition, we may have a resource to help you get things back on track.

Faith

You've heard the Biblical expression "train up your child in the ways he should go…" but you've come up against your own limitations of time, energy and ability to train them in all the ways. And you know that school and after-school activities may not give them the true Biblical foundation they need to cope with all the chaos life will throw at them.

Whether you're a parent, a college student, a teenager--or anyone just struggling with finding meaning in your life, you may find these categories in the Faith channel helpful:

• Becoming a Christian
• Evangelism
• Faith in Life
• Christian Worldview
• Spiritual Development
• Faith Challenges

Entertainment

Once again you've turned off the radio or the television, discouraged that you are enjoying mind-candy or, worse, programs that teach all the wrong values. Where do you turn?

Focusonthefamily.com's Entertainment channel offers resources to help you and your family learn how to wade through the entertainment and media landmines. Topics like the Internet, Media discernment and music, movie and television reviews can lead you to safety.

Social Issues

The social issues channel of focusonthefamily.com serves to bring timely, critical analysis to bear on the most important cultural and policy issues of the day. Written and edited by some of the country's most knowledgeable family advocates, the resources featured here are designed to educate and energize concerned citizens within religious, political, educational, and activist spheres working to apply Christian principles to the struggles that face our nation.

If this country's political climate calls you to action, these are just a few of the topics to help you become a more informed citizen.

• Sexual Identity and Gender
• Worldview and Culture
• Gambling
• Bioethics & Sanctity of Human Life
• Abstinence Policy
• Education

By now, you can see how Focus on the Family exists to serve you and your family. It's in our DNA as a non-profit Christian ministry who follows God by supporting, encouraging and strengthening families worldwide. And we're not an organization to rest on past efforts and accomplishments. Every day we're at work on new programs and initiatives that will help you and your family even more.

That's been our goal since 1977, when child psychologist Dr. James Dobson started a small 15-minute radio weekly broadcast. Our broadcasts now reach 220 million listeners daily, on over 7,000 stations in 160 countries. We're on the front-lines wherever legislation threatens to harm the family. We keep the printing-presses running with brochures, newsletters, magazines and books to help make sense of marriage and parenting. We've created a web and cell phone presence for immediate advice and resources. And each day we're developing new ways to help with all the new emerging technology

We're here for you. Let us help, however we can. Remember, we're just a phone call away.