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When children ask about an absent parent's addiction

My eight-year-old asks me every night why daddy left and I keep making up different stories because I cannot bear to tell him his father chose drugs over us.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The parent struggles between protecting their child's innocence and honoring their need for truth about abandonment.

Worth thinking about

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