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My husband, “Mason,” and I have a 6-year-old daughter, “Evelyn,” who is the joy of our lives. She is an only child and we are ...

You are writing this because you know it’s not ethical but want, as your sign-off indicates, permission to look the other way. Look, I’d love to be God and rewrite the rules as we know them—and after ...