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When parents choose charity over children

My father wants to leave everything to charity and nothing to his children because he thinks we should earn our own way but I have three kids and could really use that help.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Competing values about deservingness and self-reliance can tear families apart across generations.

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