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When Karen Cordaway was twenty-nine and pregnant with her second daughter, her mom got sick—really sick. She was terminally ill with carcinoma meningitis. Karen, who was working part-time as a substitute teacher and tutor at the time, scaled back her work schedule drastically and called on friends to care for her two-year-old so that she could be by her mom’s side. She handled all the logistics of her mom’s care, including decisions about treatments. “It was just a matter of time,” she recalls.
Her mom died and then four months later, Karen’s second daughter was born. She opted to continue scaling back her work schedule so she could be home with her two young daughters, sacrificing income to be the family’s chief caregiver. ...
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