Actually, whether you think A or B is the best parent probably says a lot about you, too.
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Besides dealing with our own sense of loss about a parent, we now have this new responsibility: doing a lot of the stuff the other parent used to do for our remaining aging parent.
"Caregiving for a parent can bring up a lot of emotion -- parents know how to push our buttons and that does not stop with dementia, " Morhardt said.
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"The take-away from the research (is) that if you are a parent or want to become a parent, understand what you are getting yourself into and be prepared for a lot of hard work, sweat and tears -- even under the best of conditions, " she said.
Some of them may harbor a lot of anger toward the ill sibling, the disease or you as a parent for not solving the problem.
"It just goes to show you that we're going to have to do a lot more to protect our students in this small town, " an unidentified parent told KGET.
In general, women are still the primary parent, and they still do more household chores, which involves both physical work and a whole lot of mental work remembering appointments, planning meals, getting the paperwork in on time.
"A lot of the things they checked off on those questions were related to their anxiety about the parent's next deployment, and just concerns about the emotional health of their family members, " she said.
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