Good daughters
Subtitle: loving our mothers as they age
By: Patricia Beard
Publisher: Warner Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780446523592
Subjects: Mothers and daughters; Aging parents; Psychology; Daughters; Parent and adult child
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-286).
Table of contents: title: Reality Check; title: The Culture: Some Things Have Changed; title: The Mother-Daughter Relationship; title: Adolescence in Middle Age; title: Old Age, the Baseline; title: What Mothers Want; title: The Opportunities of Old Age; title: A Role Reversal?; title: The "Good Enough" Daughter; title: Profiles; title: Real Lives; title: Making Decisions Together; title: Balancing Duty and Self-Preservation; title: Living Together, Staying Independent; title: When Intimacy Is Elusive; title: Long-Distance Daughters, Unresolved Issues; title: Loss; title: The Last Chapter; title: Letting Go When Your Mother Is Your Best Friend; title: Making Peace with an Imperfect Mother; title: What Shall We Do about Our Mothers?; title: Another Generation / Hillary Beard.