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Parentifying a child means tasking them with something developmentally inappropriate.
Why does parentification happen in the first place?
In other cases, a monetary barrier can lead to inadvertent parentification.
Her own mother was one of four kids to emigrate with her grandmother to the U.S. from El Salvador.
They were seeking asylum here, so they were coming from a space of trauma, she says.
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Her grandmother chose not to send her three girls to school because she thought theyd be safer at home.
First-generation kids also typically learn their new homes language sooner than their parents.
What are the long-term effects of parentification?
says Dr. Sanchez, which can also create anxiety or spawn people-pleasing behaviors.
People who were parentified often have a deep-rooted sense of having toworkfor someones love.
And ifyouarent, its unlikely that those around you will, either.
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