While Your Child Is Still Alive: A Letter to Parents Who Aren't Ready to March …

While Your Child Is Still Alive: A Letter to Parents Who Aren't Ready to March …

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I needed someone who had compassion for my fear and grief to help me figure out why I was so scared, sad and deeply bothered by the thought of our son having a boyfriend. Sadly, in the first years after Ryan came out, I let my fear keep me … This is …
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Vaping May Be Hazardous to Your Health

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Are e-cigarettes, which come in such flavors as chocolate and butter rum, a benign device to help people stop smoking? Or are they just a new way to feed an old addiction? How safe, compared with tobacco smoke, is the vapor they create? No one knows.
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Families: Struggling for a foothold in a cyclone

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Another problem, Herr advised, is that codependency may be involved. Family members are trying to help, but they end up enabling instead, which keeps perpetuating the cycle of abuse, recovery and relapse. "Raphael" was at the client meeting last week.
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