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When your child's car accident feels like your failure as a parent

My teenage son totaled our family car last week and I keep replaying the moment I handed him the keys, wondering if I failed him by not being stricter about driving rules. The insurance will cover it but I cannot stop thinking I should have known this would happen.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The weight of parental responsibility collides with the reality that we cannot control outcomes, only intentions.

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