To my brood: cousin Michele, sister-in-law Samantha, brother Michael, bonus mother Elaine, and to my brother David who puts the hysterical in Halpern.

I am also enormously grateful for all the ways my bonus mother, Jeri, has enhanced my life and the lives of my family and for the joy she so readily shares with us.

I am sitting on a balcony with the well-spoken and highly experienced family therapist, Jesper Juul. I am a producer, journalist, lecturer, mother, bonus mother and partner. My partner and I live with three boys: my own son Max who is 13 years and my partner's two sons Carl Frederik who is 14 and Johan who is 11.

Bonus mother

Meaning

Noun