Raising Wise Kids in a Sexually Broken World: A Gospel-Centered Approach -- Laurie Krieg, Paperback

"This book is a gift to all parents trying to navigate the complexity of raising children in today's world. ... I wish I could make this book required reading for every parent." - Christine Caine, founder of A21 and Propel Women

How can you raise your children to not just to survive but to thrive in a world filled with complex and confusing conversations about gender, sexuality, and relationships?

Navigating the birds and bees is challenging enough for parents. Kids today are faced with all sorts of complex issues, and often at a very early age. When is it too early to talk about sex? How can we begin to view the gender conversation? How do we help our kids not to approach the world fearfully but to walk into it confidently--even in the world's most controversial spaces?

Laurie and Matt Krieg believe that, as a Christian parent, you can approach sexual topics with confidence and grace by laying a solid gospel-centered foundation from early childhood onward. Raising Wise Kids in a Sexually Broken World offers you theological guidance, parenting principles, and age-appropriate insights for addressing complex issues in healthy ways: issues like marriage and singleness, God's design for sex, same-sex attraction and sexual orientation, gender identity, sexual abuse, and pornography.

In Raising Wise Kids in a Sexually Broken World, you'll learn to:

• Present God's purpose for both marriage and singleness
• Explain God's design for sex with clarity
• Discuss gender identity from a biblical perspective
• Protect your children from sexual abuse
• Prevent porn addiction
• Promote online safeguards

Raising Wise Kids in a Sexually Broken World is a timely and essential resource for today's Christian parents. Rather than retreating in fear, you can respond to the brokenness of the world with the goodness, truth, and beauty of the gospel and help your kids to do the same. Cast a gospel vision for your kids so that no matter how they experience sexual brokenness within them or around them, they have the tools they need to choose the way of Jesus no matter what.

Author: Laurie Krieg
Publisher: IVP
Published: 01/13/2026
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.62w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9781514012147

About the Author

Laurie Krieg is the director of parent programs and discipleship for The Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender. Laurie and her husband, Matt, are cohosts of the Hole in My Heart podcast, coauthors of An Impossible Marriage, and live in West Michigan with their three kids.

Matt Krieg (MA, LPC) is a licensed mental health therapist and a site director at Second Story Counseling in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Matt and his wife, Laurie, are cohosts of the Hole in My Heart podcast, coauthors of An Impossible Marriage, and live in West Michigan with their three kids.