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Is foster parenting for you? Learn why love alone isn’t enough, and why a trauma-informed lens can change everything.

“Let us love this distance which is wholly woven of friendship, for those who do not love each other are not separated,” Simone Weil wrote in her soulful meditation on the paradox of closeness and separation. To be separated from a loved one — in space or in silence, by choice or by circumstance —…

In my previous essay, I presented some groundwork and stage setting for the discussion to follow. In this essay I will look at consent. Intuitively, what makes some activities wrong (and often criminal) is lack of consent. Theft, for example, is taking property without the owner’s consent. Kidnapping, as another example, is transporting a person…