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Life Challenges • Parenting Finding your role as a new step-parent Step-parents often discover that the ambiguous nature of their role leads to great frustration. Being a smart step-pa... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Being the "other parent" in a blended family When a stepfamily is made up of children whose parents have previously divorced, there is often another parent – or ... Article
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Life Challenges • Parenting Understanding the impact of divorce What parents see as a quick way out often results in emotional damage that the children will carry for 30 years or mo... Article
Life Challenges • Gender identity How do we make sense of gender in today’s culture? With the prevalence of “gender options” in our culture it continues to be a complicated topic among young people. The... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting How to cope when your child is born with a disability What do you do with the swell of emotion? How do you handle the news and still operate as a good parent of a newborn?... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting How parental attachment determines a child's emotional health If you were offered a test that could predict how emotionally healthy your child will become, would you take the test... Article