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Adjusting Your Expectations about Foster Care

By Carol Lee

It’s hard to picture what foster parenting will really be like if you’ve never been a foster parent before. But, when foster parents say they’re “all in” when they aren’t, kids get hurt.

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Regretting Motherhood: What Have I Done to My Life?

I love my kids fiercely. But, if I’m being totally honest, there are times when I catch myself dreaming about the life I might have if I weren’t chained to three young kids, a husband and a mortgage.

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Lola Augustine Brown
2017
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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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Gail Cornwall
2021
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