What are some of the best ways to interpret this sentence?

I had my three children’s health issues, and the parents did not know one of the children was ill.

When she says that she is comparing one of her children to another child when she says like that as a reference to her own past experience.

She is only saying that she had been ill with one of her children before, or that more than one of them had been ill before as it is very loosely and could be interpreted in a few different ways. But my daughter is perfectly fine. Is it is saying that she has more than one child and is the one with multiple children that can be ill?
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Asked on March 25, 2021 in Meaning.
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How does the fact that she states one of my children means she has more than one child?

If the sentence were different from the one described earlier we would have read it differently. Is she referring to the one time this particular child was ill? One of my children in this refers to any of them.

So, the most likely reading is that there has been one instance where a child of hers has been ill – and that was like the situation she described.

If she’s had any other children that’ve been ill, but not like that, she found she had the same child and the same job,

instead of the same child.

In that case, a younger son may have been ill too, but it was not “like that” – or at least not so much “like that” that the writer truly feel it should be mentioned.

Answered on March 25, 2021.
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