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(Imagine nine or ten! In large families, older children often take on parenting responsibilities for the younger ones and serve as surrogate mothers.)
Jasmin Lee Cori MS LPC • The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed
She was a passionate mother,
Siri Hustvedt • Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays
Larissa Weinstein
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Once she has been marked by motherhood, the swan maiden is no longer indistinguishable from her sisters. In her daily toil on behalf of her children, she has become herself uniquely.
Lisa Marchiano • Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself
As my parents aged, I found myself torn between being their child and being their caregiver, as so many people do when their parents decline.
Suzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
Our culture is really doing a ten out of ten job in caring in the worst possible ways. There is no infrastructure to support parents of caregivers, so care makes you poor and exhausts you. (Solution: Pay caregivers! Universal and affordable childcare and eldercare!) Parenting has become more instrumental than it used to be: kids are a project, anot... See more