Siblings – Part 1

Often when we give our marriage seminars, someone asks a question about siblings: “Would they be resentful of all of the extra time we devote to our child with special needs?’, “How much responsibility for their sibling with special needs should we place on them?”, “How do we find balance in our families?” This concern weighs heavily on parents; we know it did for us.  Each family and every sibling are different, but as our “typically developing (TD)” children are now adults (Emily is 29, Albert is 25), we’ve had time to give this issue a lot of consideration.