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When working to afford your child's needs means being absent for them

I work overtime every week to pay for my daughter's therapy but I am never home to actually parent her, and I wonder if the money I spend fixing her problems is creating them in the first place.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The cruel irony of economic survival requiring absence exactly when presence is most needed creates a cycle of guilt and practical impossibility.

Ideas that help explain it
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“Where Are You with Money and parenting — financial pressure and class?”

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