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100 Things You Can Do To Keep Your Family Together... (1994)The Single Parent Family (1994)

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Single parents in particular may have trouble maintaining themselves as authority figures because of underlying guilt; they feel a continuing sense that they have deprived their kids of the second parent, and so they tend to give in to the children's requests, even when unreasonable.

Marge Kennedy

Marge Kennedy (20th century), U.S. writer, and Janet Spencer King (20th century), U.S. writer. The Single Parent Family, ch. 3 (1994).

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