Help for Your Stepfamily, Single Parent, Stepchildren

IFRE's vision is to provide quality education to single parent and stepfamily households in order to build sustainable loving relationships, lasting intimacy among marriage partners, and emotionally healthy children.

The families and individuals who are the focus of IFRE are:

*Single parents
*Single adults who will be future stepparents
*All parents/stepparents in stepfamilies
*Any pastor/teacher/counselor/leader who desires to learn more about the single parent or stepfamily

Mission Statement

Our mission is to disseminate quality education to single parents, future stepparents, stepfamilies, and individuals in leadership through seminars, publications, and electronic medium to every Christian church and applicable organization throughout the country.
Our mission is to also provide certified continuing education to business professionals.

Applicable organizations include the church and associated Christian organizations; government and business establishments; military establishments, prisons, colleges, counseling centers, and family court services.

Dr. Donald and Jenetha Partridge

Dr. Donald Partridge and his wife Jenetha are the proud parents/stepparents of a highly successful blending stepfamily of seven children. When Don and Jenetha met and married, they were both single parents, Don with two children and Jenetha with three. With the addition of two of their own, their blending family became truly, "Yours, mine, and ours." As a result of interacting with other single parents and stepfamilies, Don and Jenetha realized that their personal experiences and difficulties were shared by many other single parents and stepfamilies. In 1989 they both committed their future life's work to providing knowledgeable, well-researched, practical solutions for single parents and stepfamilies.

Dr. Partridge earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at Patten College, his Master's in Theology degree at Fuller Seminary, and his Doctor of Philosophy degree at Oxford Graduate School, focusing on issues involving remarriage. Don graduated Summa Cum Laude and was valedictorian at Patten College and valedictorian at Oxford. Don also received Oxford's Challis Award for the doctoral study most likely to benefit Christianity. Don is a standing member of Oxford's Society of Scholars.

Jenetha is a registered nurse and consultant for a national home health and hospice company communting to Kansas, Missouri, and Washington four days a week.

Together, Don and Jenetha are currently conducting conferences and workshops throughout the country. Don and Jenetha are the founders and directors of the Institute for Family Research and Education, a non-profit corporation dedicated to providing quality educational assistance to single parents and stepfamilies.