Being a parent is all-encompassing because it involves your full time, attention, and energy. Caring for one child can be challenging in itself, and if people choose to have more, they need all the support and resources they can get to keep up.
This is what a woman with five kids realized since her husband isn’t of any help at all, and her mother-in-law very rarely offers childcare support. She is irritated that her husband’s mom often babysits her other grandkids, but keeps turning down requests to look after the five boys.
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