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co-mothering  

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  • Co-mothering is the experience of being a second mother to a child not biologically one's own. It is distinct from adoptive mothering or stepmothering in as much as the child's other parent is also a woman. [Source: Encyclopedia of Motherhood; Co-Mothering]

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