Intro -- Half-Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Lifelong Connection -- 2. Emerging Adulthood -- 3. Parents Need Independence Too -- 4. Meeting and Communicating -- 5. Living with Adult Children -- 6. Crises in Adult Children's Lives -- 7. Parents' Crises -- 8. Conflict, Tension and Disagreement -- 9. Adult Siblings and New Family Dynamics -- 10. When Your Child Finds a Long-term Partner -- 11. When Children Become Parents -- 12. Adult Children Who Need More Support -- Conclusion -- Resources -- Further Reading and Viewing -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
Summary:
The must read guide to navigating healthy relationships with your adult children. What makes parents happiest, according to influential new research, is good relationships with their adult children. This book is one of the first to offer much-needed guidance on developing a strong and enduring bond with children in the decades after they've left home. It's a crucial slice of family life which hopefully lasts much longer than the twenty or so years it takes to raise a child. Yet surprisingly it's rarely discussed. So it's a shock for parents who assumed their job was done to discover that when a child leaves home (or boomerangs back again), it's actually the beginning of a whole new chapter. Full of practical advice and wisdom, and featuring interviews with experts, specialists, parents and their offspring, this is the must read handbook for anyone with adult children.
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