Children, Grief, and Loyalty
Understand the different emotional needs of minor and adult children, including grief, fear, loyalty conflicts, trust, and family identity.
CVF Christian Love, Relationships & Intimacy Series · Volume 2
When a Parent Loves Again
A Christian Guide to New Relationships, Children, and Family Conflict
Compassionate, biblically grounded guidance for parents, children, new partners, relatives, pastors, and families navigating love, remarriage, loyalty, boundaries, and conflict after divorce or widowhood.
Kindle Available
Paperback Available
Hardcover Planned
About the Book
New relationships affect the entire family—not only two adults.
When a parent begins a new relationship after divorce or widowhood, the decision affects far more than two adults. Children, former spouses, surviving relatives, finances, family traditions, grief, loyalty, and questions of trust can all become part of the journey.
When a Parent Loves Again offers compassionate, biblically grounded guidance for parents, new partners, adult children, relatives, pastors, and others navigating these complicated transitions. James Stewart examines the different needs of minor and adult children, the distinct challenges of divorce and widowhood, the importance of patient relationship pacing, and the responsibilities accompanying dating, engagement, and remarriage.
The book addresses children’s emotional safety, adult children’s concerns, former spouses, surviving relatives, household access, privacy, discipline, digital communication, finances, property, caregiving, estate planning, coercive control, abuse, addiction, exploitation, and danger.
Practical conversation guides, discernment questions, boundary plans, and safety resources help families distinguish grief from danger, concern from control, privacy from secrecy, and forgiveness from restored trust or access.
Major Themes
Love, responsibility, family protection, and a faithful future.
Boundaries and Family Conflict
Address former spouses, surviving relatives, household access, discipline, privacy, digital communication, and difficult conversations.
Safety and Responsible Planning
Consider finances, property, caregiving, estate planning, coercive control, addiction, exploitation, abuse, and other serious risks.
Releasing July 22, 2026
Kindle and paperback editions are now available.
The Amazon purchase link will be added as soon as the first edition becomes available.