 Unfortunately, many single parents feel isolated, even ostracized in their church. Churches need to have a strategy that enables them to stand by single parents in substantive ways. In Matthew 25, Jesus applauds believers who sacrificially help people he refers to as the least of these my brethren. He doesn't determine their qualification for a tender touch based on how they got into those circumstances. He simply says that they are in those circumstances and he loves it when we do something to help them.