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 78
As recently as 1973, at the height of the women's movement, in a popular advice
book called Mothers and Daughters author Edith Neisser asked, "How much help
should a girl be?" and gave an answer that Sigourney might have written more ...
As recently as 1973, at the height of the women's movement, in a popular advice
book called Mothers and Daughters author Edith Neisser asked, "How much help
should a girl be?" and gave an answer that Sigourney might have written more ...
Page 99
Words like "pride and joy" tend to appear on greeting cards for new baby boys
but "small and sweet" on those for baby girls. A successful businesswoman who
was an only child told me the following story. It had never occurred to her that her
...
Words like "pride and joy" tend to appear on greeting cards for new baby boys
but "small and sweet" on those for baby girls. A successful businesswoman who
was an only child told me the following story. It had never occurred to her that her
...
Page 150
I remember my mother telling me just a few years ago that as a little girl, she had
longed to have a puppy because she wanted to cuddle it. I had always known my
mother hated cats, and I'd assumed that extended to all animals. When she told ...
I remember my mother telling me just a few years ago that as a little girl, she had
longed to have a puppy because she wanted to cuddle it. I had always known my
mother hated cats, and I'd assumed that extended to all animals. When she told ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Don't Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-daughter Relationship Perennial library |
| Author | Paula J. Caplan |
| Publisher | Harper & Row, 1989 |
| ISBN | 0060161027, 9780060161026 |
| Length | 258 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / General |
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