Families - Parenting, Spouse, Caregiver

What could be worse than having cancer? Having cancer when you have growing children. Here is help for moms with cancer, as well as spouses, partners, and other caregivers.

When Moms Get Cancer: Two Book Reviews
Your Guide reviews one book for parents, and one for chlidren: How to Help Children Through a Parent's Serious Illness and Our Family Has Cancer, Too"

How, When, and What to Tell the Children
Excellent article by About's Breast Cancer Guide Margaret Chiffriller about communicatiing with children about their mother's cancer.

Communication: Talking to the Children
BC Guide Margaret reports on some studies having to do with communicating with children about children's understanding of illness in their parents.

When Someone In Your Family Has Cancer
This publication from the National Cancer Institute is aimed at children - probably starting at around age 7 or 8 if read with a parent, and 11 or 12 on their own, although would always be a lot of benefit to reading it together and discussing questions that came up.

Helping Children Understand Cancer
Another article about helping children deal with cancer in the family.

Children's Common Emotional Reactions and How to Help
Although "Breast Cancer" is in the title of this article, it really has nothing to do specifically with breast cancer, and would work equally well for any cancer diagnosis.

10 Tips For Caregivers
Jim Acee, the husband of an ovarian cancer survivor, gives some great advice here.

Kidscope
This organization makes a comic-style book and video for children who's parents have cancer.

Parenting Through Cancer Resource Guide
This was compiled as a resource for women in the San Franciso Bay Area, but there is also a list of books and videos.

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