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This Is Fatherhood: 7 Dads Describe the Moment It Got Real

By Amy Joyce — 2019

To mark this Father’s Day, we asked dads to describe a moment when they truly felt like a father, in 500 words or fewer. Here are some of our favorite essays.

Read on www.washingtonpost.com

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The Two Reasons Parents Regret Having Kids

Feelings of ambivalence about parenthood aren’t necessarily going to do harm to children. But when regret suffuses the parent-child dynamic, the whole family can suffer.

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The Burnout We Can’t Talk About: Parent Burnout

New research demonstrates parental burnout has serious consequences. As defined by the study, burnout is an exhaustion syndrome, characterized by feeling overwhelmed, physical and emotional exhaustion, emotional distancing from one’s children, and a sense of being an ineffective parent.

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