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When protecting your child feels like punishment to them

I am a single mother and my teenage daughter says she hates me because I will not let her see her father who has a restraining order.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The parent must enforce necessary boundaries that their child experiences as deprivation, not protection.

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