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Helping Your Child Cope with a Chronically Ill Parent
By Rebecca B. Skolnick — 2018
In 1990, my mother wrote an article for the Journal of Contemporary Dialysis and Nephrology [1] instructing parents with chronic illness on how to help their children cope.
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