Parenting & Pregnancy > Helping Kids Cope Tips for dealing with tears, yours and the kids'

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When you have a major change in the home, you have to deal with the emotions of the situation. Dealing with the tears, not only your own but those of your children, can be a very difficult thing. You need to look at it almost as if you were dealing with a death. Because you really are experiencing the death of your relationsh... More..

Parenting & Pregnancy > Adoption Older child adoption: What you need to know

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I am writing this from the perspective of the adoptive child, in that I was 12 years old when I came to live with the people I now call Mom and Dad.My biological family had fallen apart in 1986. My father had died that year and my mother, though she loved us, couldn't take care of us. Before his death, my father had been sexu... More..

Parenting & Pregnancy > Parenthood Single parents and the challenges they face

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Being a parent is the best experience, hands down wonderful. One of the reasons it's so wonderful, is that it's so major. That is to say "a major responsibility." So is it any wonder that there are days, we parents feel like the weight of the world is on our shoulders, and it is seriously weighing us down.We all know how easy... More..

Parenting & Pregnancy > Parenthood Assessing the future of the fathers' rights movement

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As long as the father wants to be in the life of their child, realistically, no one should stand in his way. He should realize that it is a part of the mother's body for the first nine months. I don't believe in abortion but I don't think that any one person should have the right to tell someone else what to do with their own... More..

Relationships & Family > Children & Divorce Divorce and children: Putting children first

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It is hard to get past the hurt that comes with divorce. When you have children you have to put it behind you and "make nice" and put the children's feelings above your own. I say this knowing it isn't as easy as it may sound. I have been divorced since my children were small. Their father and I have not always put them first... More..

Relationships & Family > Cheating Spouses & Affairs Cheating: Is it really worth it

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As time has given me the benefit of hindsight; I can say that unequivocally, No it is never worth it to cheat. I had an affair in 1999. My husband at the time never found out about it and it only happen once but it had a lasting effect that I never expected.I had been feeling unloved in my marriage and a friend was there for ... More..

Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: Adoption from the child's perspective

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The date was December 26, 1988. I was leaving my foster home, and the family that I had grown to love, for the last time. I kissed the family that had loved me for the past year goodbye. I didn't really know a lot about the people that I was going to live with, we had only met with them once before we found out that they were... More..

Parenting & Pregnancy > Adoption Assessing child abuse risk factors

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Child abuse is extremely prevalent in our society. If we aren't careful, we fall into silent complacency. We don't really hear about all the forms of abuse that children are subjected to but we do hear about the physical aspect on the news regularly. I don't think that we have been inoculated against it but we do tend to igno... More..

Parenting & Pregnancy > Problems Parents Face How to stop the bickering with your ex

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It's never easy to say goodbye, especially when your goodbye includes having to continuously have dealings with your former mate for the sake of your children. You will go through the natural animus in the very beginning simply to assist yourself in the idea of moving on. If you can exert your supremacy or even make your form... More..

Parenting & Pregnancy > Child Development Issues Helping an older child adjust to a new sibling

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My personal experience comes from having my youngest daughter just two months ago and getting to come home to a very active 19 month old daughter who, though she is excited about the new baby, has not missed a beat in her activity level and has realized that the baby takes me away from her. It was hard the first few days to g... More..

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1. Tips for dealing with tears, yours and the kids'
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3. Assessing the future of the fathers' rights movement
4. Assessing child abuse risk factors
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6. Older child adoption: What you need to know
7. Single parents and the challenges they face
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