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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK

When my teenage son was struggling, my partner reached him in ways I couldn’t

Two people stand with arms around each other's shoulders, facing away, looking at stylized trees

Dear Harry,

It’s never easy coming into a ready-made family of two teenagers and their mother, all still raw from the rupture of divorce. Never having had kids yourself, maybe it was harder still, when you didn’t really understand them or their situation. But try you did.

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