My initial response to my dissatisfaction at MIT was to blame the fact that I was a sleep-deprived mother of a one-year old adjusting to single parenting.

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Instead of putting on a false facade where we keep it together at work, only to have our home life blow up in divorce, affairs, family disintegration, or single parenting.

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Of note, a higher percentage of respondents reported to be single parents but acknowledged co-parenting with someone else.

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Both Shu and Gaensbauer observe that most children can work through and overcome a single traumatic episode without any obvious long-term effects, given supportive parenting and caretaking.

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