By Hollis Miller — 2015
We asked the HuffPost Parents community to share their advice for new dads of daughters, and here’s what they had to say:
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We tend to think of childhood as a time of innocence and joy, but as many as 2 to 3 percent of children from ages 6 to 12 can have serious depression.