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Whether you are asking too much of your oldest child

My eldest daughter is twenty-two and helping raise her younger siblings but I worry I am stealing her youth by depending on her so much.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The parent questions if cultural expectations of sibling responsibility are crossing into exploitation of their child's individual life.

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