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How to protect dying children from well-meaning interference

My mother keeps suggesting alternative treatments she found online and I cannot make her understand that false hope is more dangerous than no hope when your child is dying.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Family members' inability to accept medical reality creates additional emotional labor for parents already managing impossible circumstances.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Parenting a child with chronic illness?”

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