A distraught young father has brought his 3-year-old daughter to the clinic. She is ill and showing symptoms of pneumonia. As you take the history, the father tells you his wife was recently killed in a traffic accident
"How will I ever raise my daughter right? A girl needs her mother!" A truth about parenting that the nurse can share with the father is:
A) The child will do better with both a mother and a father.
B) Parenting is stressful and parents of either gender need "adult" time for themselves.
C) The child will receive adequate female role modeling at day care; the father need not be concerned.
D) All of the above.
B
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