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Amy Vecchione's avatar

I am so grateful you shared this. As a person who solo patented as a single mom for about a decade - the echo chamber was hard. I know we are not alone in this experience but I do wish I'd had the space and time to grow during that period. It would have helped my kid also. Thank you for discussing this.

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Jennifer M. Weaver, PhD's avatar

The fact that you did this for so many years makes you a hero to me.

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Mary Pritchard's avatar

Thank you for this beautiful, vulnerable post. When I was growing up, I was told, "it takes a village" (to parent a child), but the reality never seems to match that old African proverb. This article provides an interesting take on it: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8964422/

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Jennifer M. Weaver, PhD's avatar

I love the ideas in this article! Definitely resonates, "Even though parents may be a child's primary caregivers, a family does not exist in a vacuum. Social connectedness has been defined as those subjective psychological bonds that people experience in relation to others including, for example, a sense of belonging and feeling cared for"

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