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iQuestions Faculty, Ron Blue 
 
 
Question: 
 
How should we help out financially with special needs children and 
grandchildren? 
 
Answer: 
 
How to help special needs situations in your children or your 
grandchildren is really a tough one. And there’s a lot of different 
special needs that people have—maybe it’s a physical handicap, 
maybe it’s a mental handicap, maybe it’s a divorce, maybe it’s the loss 
of a job. There are many special needs that our children and our 
grandchildren can experience. 
 
There’s a principle to follow, and that is if you love your children 
equally, you will treat them uniquely. Judy and I have always followed 
the principle because we love our children equally—when they had a 
need that was a real need, we jumped in there to try to help.  
 
We had a daughter, for example, who became a single mom, and we 
helped her out through that need. It did not mean that we needed to 
do the same thing for our other children. There’s a limit on the 
financial resources, and nobody necessarily has unlimited financial 
resources. 
 
So, if you’ve got a special need, whatever that special need might be 
—a child or grandchildren—and you have the ability to help, I think it’s 
very biblical to help. In I Timothy 5:8 it says, “A man is worse than an 
infidel that doesn’t support or provide for his family.” 
 
 
 
One of the greatest privileges that you have as a parent or as a 
grandparent is to be that resource, to really step in where God would 
have you to step in at that particular time. 
 
So, I think it’s very legitimate. I don’t think that it means you have to 
treat the rest of your children the same way. 
 
And so, you can be the provider and the help that your children need 
or your grandchildren need. That’s just a privilege you have. 
 
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