Oh honey, we ALL feel that way. I feel it on a daily basis. With what my dd went through last summer, I feel it even MORE so because there's a huge part of me that feels like I should have been able to protect her from all that. As parents, especially single moms, I feel like we're never going to feel as though we do enough. But it's important to have a support system around us. And you know you have that, here at SSD.
One suggestion I would make for you, in regard to there being no male figure for Ce, is look into a big brother program in your area. These programs are fabulous for giving kids a positive role model and someone to hang out with. And in most of them that I've heard about and researched, the big brothers are trained and instructed in how to interact with the kids and they're screened to the nth degree for safety reasons.
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