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It Is What It Is: Love, Control, and Letting Go

It Is What It Is: Love, Control, and Letting Go
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All parents need to learn a degree of equanimity, a kind of peace with the way things are and what we can and cannot do about it.

Paul Adams
Paul Adams
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Paul Adams is a professor emeritus of social work at the University of Hawai‘i, and was professor and associate dean of academic affairs at Case Western Reserve University. He is the co-author of "Social Justice Isn’t What You Think It Is," and has written extensively on social welfare policy and professional and virtue ethics.
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