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Karen Peralta's Articles in Parenting

  • I Wish It Could Have Been Otherwise
    This was written for an academic journal about people with disabilities and what that means concerning their parent-child relationships.

    As far back as I can remember, I have been hearing voices. It started when I was just three months old. I remember lying on my back in a cold sweat, undergoing nicotine withdrawal (as I found out decades later), my smoking mother having switched from breast-feeding to bottled formula. Gasping for breath, I heard my father yelling at my si...