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I do think the child's best interests should be foremost, but this conversation made me think of advice my mother as given me over and over (and I do mean repeatedly! LOL) ever since I started on the road to become a mother.
Keep yourself mentally and emotionally healthy. If a child's parents are not mentally and emotionally healthy then the child will not be either. Of course, this all has to come in balance. There as to be REASONABLE give and take. The child is totally the center I think, but the parent's health is essential to the child.
You know those dumb refridgerator magnets that say "If moma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy"? There's truth in that I think.
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Camille in Idaho
Waiting to adopt since 4/03
Wanting to build my family since 11/97
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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world ~Helen Keller
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