Love Should Never Replace Professional Access

Symbolic photograph: A child-sized yellow coat hangs between two adult coats on a wall hook above a wooden table. A smartphone and a small stack of papers sit on the table below. Soft indoor light fills the scene. No people are shown.

Love is often present in the ways families support each other.

But sometimes, that support can stretch into places it was never meant to reach.

What looks like care can also carry responsibility that was not meant for a child.

And love does not always remove the weight of what is being held.

This reflection comes from my perspective as a Deaf parent, shaped by listening to CODA voices and stories over time.

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