Still, not for a moment can we forget the emotional costs of our endurance.

The majority are cared for by their own families and friends, often at great emotional cost to themselves.

The grandmothers have had to take the children from the natural mother, sometimes in court and always at a high emotional cost.

This makes sense, given the high cost - both emotional and financial - of litigation.

Starting a fight can be the most effective way to get parents to pay more attention, even though the emotional cost is high.

Her work is so intensely personal that I wonder at its emotional cost.

The film is targeted toward kids and looks at the emotional costs of smoking.

But the emotional cost would just be too steep for everyone involved.

Some new research shows that there can be an emotional cost to being supportive.

"The emotional cost of dealing with these people was extreme."