The Mom of a Mentally Ill Child Needs Understanding

• By: Marcia Eckerd, PhD
• July 1st, 2011
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Being the mother of a child with mental illness is a grueling job. First, being female doesn’t help. Besides usually being the primary caretaker of the child, being female in our culture can mean being taken less seriously. There’s also an assumption, rarely directly expressed, that a mom...