Don't blame mother: mending the mother-daughter relationshipThe anger and agony of the mother-daughter relationship can be replaced with a new bond based on understanding and respect according to Dr. Caplan. She shows women how to move to a new, positive mother-daughter relationship based on respect. |
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Page 58
Some of the most powerful reasons for this emerged from the fact that adult men
are the most common perpetrators of child sexual abuse. Reports of such abuse
have been suppressed because of people's refusal to believe that adult men ...
Some of the most powerful reasons for this emerged from the fact that adult men
are the most common perpetrators of child sexual abuse. Reports of such abuse
have been suppressed because of people's refusal to believe that adult men ...
Page 61
Now, as adult members of the dominant sex who believe it is unmasculine to be
controlled by someone else, losing power reminds them of their relatively
powerless days of childhood. Back then, mother was likely to have had day-to-
day ...
Now, as adult members of the dominant sex who believe it is unmasculine to be
controlled by someone else, losing power reminds them of their relatively
powerless days of childhood. Back then, mother was likely to have had day-to-
day ...
Page 136
If she rejects you, now that you're an adult, you don't have to go to your room and
sulk, feeling totally unloved; you can call a close friend, reread old love letters, go
to a movie, do any of a million things that adults can do to remind ourselves of ...
If she rejects you, now that you're an adult, you don't have to go to your room and
sulk, feeling totally unloved; you can call a close friend, reread old love letters, go
to a movie, do any of a million things that adults can do to remind ourselves of ...
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| Title | Don't blame mother: mending the mother-daughter relationship |
| Author | Paula J. Caplan |
| Publisher | Harper & Row, 1989 |
| ISBN | 0060161027, 9780060161026 |
| Length | 258 pages |
| Subjects | › › Family & Relationships / Parenting / Motherhood Intergenerational relations Motherhood Motherhood - Psychological aspects Motherhood Psychological aspects Motherhood/ Psychological aspects Mothers and daughters Psychology / General Social Science / General Women Women - Psychology Women Psychology Women/ Psychology |
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