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When your child causes someone else's death

My teenage son killed someone in a drunk driving accident and is in prison, and I do not know how to grieve for the victim's family while also grieving for my child's destroyed future.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Loving someone who has done terrible harm creates an impossible emotional landscape of competing loyalties and valid griefs.

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