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My guess is you're doing better than you think. Be gentle with yourself and watch that self-talk. It can be a killer.

Remind yourself that the fact that you are even in your children's life on a daily basis already puts your children ahead of 1/4th of the U.S.

> According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 19.7 million children, more than 1 in 4, live without a father in the home.

That's okay, I was doing all those things badly before the apocalypse.