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When taking in orphaned relatives strains your nuclear family

I am raising my sister's children after she died but my own kids resent sharing everything with their cousins and I see the family unity breaking.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Expanding the circle of care is creating division within the existing family structure.

Ideas that help explain it
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