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Caring for our Disabled daughter in lockdown

Jane Holmes talks about the challenges of caring for her Disabled daughter while working and trying to stay safe during the pandemic.

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On being a father with OCD

As a parent to young children, Ben Falk worries whether he could somehow pass his OCD on to them. Here’s what the experts say.

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The family food of a kebab van man

Melek Erdal celebrates the physical and mental resilience of her father Yusuf, forged by isolation and dislocation, and reinforced by the distinctive cuisine of his home country, Turkey.

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How we bury our children

Following her baby daughter’s funeral, Wendy Pratt found that visiting the grave gave her a way to carry out physical acts of caring for her child. Here she considers how parents’ nurturing instincts live on after a child’s death.

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  • M. Sklovodski with his three daughters.
  • Lot and his daughters find rest and begin to drink; Lot stares into one of his daughters' eyes. Engraving after A. Diepenbeeck.
  • Lot made drunk by his daughters. Line engraving by Vienot after Cl. Mellan.
  • Aesculapius with his daughters and worshippers. 4th or early 5th century B.C.
  • Mrs Nightingale with her daughters, Florence and Parthenope. Photogravure by E. Walker after a watercolour, 1828.
  • A father reading a novel with an affecting plot to his wife and daughters. Drawing, ca. 1810 (?).
  • Lot, his daughters and his wife leaving Sodom. Colour lithograph by L. Gruner after N. Consoni after Raphael.
  • Royal Aquarium : Cetewayo's daughters : Farinis Zulu Princesses : Unolala, Adza Mvoula and her baby Umgane, Unomadloza.
  • Lot and his daughters leave Sodom as it burns; Lot's wife stays behind to look at it. Etching.
  • A man playing with his sons in the sea; his wife and daughters watch from the beach. Wood engraving.
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