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How to help children maintain family bonds across geographic distance

I moved across the country for my husband's job and now my kids barely know their cousins and I feel like I stole their childhood community from them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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A parent grapples with the unintended consequences of life choices that severed their children's connection to extended family.

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