Life-Giving Wounds is a Catholic, peer-led ministry dedicated to helping young adults and adults whose parents have divorced or separated give voice to their pain and find deep, transformative healing in Christ. Through retreats, support groups, community chapters, online resources, and spiritual formation, the ministry creates safe spaces where wounds can be acknowledged, healed, and turned into sources of faith, hope, love, and joy. Rooted in the rich spiritual tradition of the Church and guided by shared experience, Life-Giving Wounds seeks to reconnect those wounded by family breakdown with Christ and His Church.
1,000,000 children
a year on average experience their parents' divorce or separation.
25% of Americans
claim no formal religious identity, a crisis in part caused by children of divorce leaving their faith because they believed that the Church wasn't listening or ministering to their wounds.
2/3 of young adults
who were regularly attending a church or synagogue at the time of their parents' divorce say that no one, neither from the clergy nor the congregation, reached out to them at that time.
72% of adult children of divorce
believe that their parents' divorce affected their ability to sustain close relationships.
40-200% greater chance
of divorce by adult children of divorce, which is caused in part by unhealed wounds that may lead to beliefs and behaviors that harm relationships.