Abstract
Injury or illness can keep a child dependent for a lifetime; it can also abruptly transform an independent into a dependent child—one with overwhelming problems and needs. Moreover, adult children who suddenly become disabled will often have their own dependents who then become complicating elements in what is already a complex and difficult situation.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
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Klingelhofer, E.L. (1989). Injury and Illness. In: Coping with your Grown Children. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4564-3_9
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