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Parent trap: WhatsApp groups are feeding our fears

25 May 2019

9:00 AM

25 May 2019

9:00 AM

The mother of a little girl in my son’s year at school recently committed suicide. On the surface she was a radiant person, smiling and full of light. Devoted to her daughter, successful at work, always good for a laugh at the school gates. No one — save those loved ones who knew her private struggle — saw it coming.

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