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How couples navigate ethical dilemmas involving family obligations

My spouse and I both love our nephew deeply, but we disagree about whether to keep giving his parents money when we know they're not spending it on him, and it's turning into this awful choice between enabling neglect or abandoning a kid we care about.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Love for a vulnerable person can put partners at odds when care and enabling become impossible to distinguish.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Love and justice — can love be fair??”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.