If you don’t feel it, it will kill you Single parenting is full of little resentments. When they’re young, it’s never being able to take a shit or a shower alone, sleep through the night, wake up when you want. When they’re older, it’s never being able to let someone else handle a teenage mood […]
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What if this was easy?
It’s such a sad world sometimes, when our nine-year-olds know that it’s never easy, when our kids can point out to us that all our fancy mind tricks aside, it is pure unwillingness to quit that keeps us going, through all the hustle and grind required to provide for your people and take care of your basic needs.
Blended families: the silent, unserved majority
Blended families are on the rise in almost every country, as divorce rates go up and marriage rates go down. Yet most policy — across countries — doesn’t account for the way modern families look, feel, and pay for things.