Overview

Coping With Your Grown Children is the only book to analyze - and lay out specific coping strategies for dealing with - the problems today's parents face with their adult offspring such as: failure of the child to really grow up or achieve full potential unemptied nests moving back home after broken marriages turning your home into a daycare center for your grandchildren substance abuse, cult involvement, trouble with the law alternative lifestyles or homosexuality physical or psychiatric problems or maybe you just think there's a problem!

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Author:   Edwin L. Klingelhofer
Publisher:   Humana Press Inc.
Imprint:   Humana Press Inc.
Edition:   1989 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.330kg
ISBN:  

9780896031593

ISBN 10:   0896031594
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   03 March 1989
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

One The Problems with Adult Children.- 1 Understanding Middle-Aged Parents and Their Adult Problem Children.- 2 How Did All This Happen ?.- 3 How Conflict with Their Adult Children Can Harm Middle-Aged Parents.- 4 Whose Problem? Yours, Mine, or Ours?.- Three Shared Problems of Parents and Adult Children.- 5 The Unemptied Nest.- 6 Dangling Grandchildren.- 7 Fall Shorts.- 8 Meddlesome Grandparents.- 9 Injury and Illness.- 10 Stepparents and Stepchildren.- 11 Legal, Fiscal, and Other Plights.- Four Individual Problems Growing Out of Differing Lifestyles.- 12 Individual Problems of Parents of Adult Children.- 13 Lifestyles and Meaningful Relationships.- 14 Gay or Lesbian Children.- 15 Cult Memberships.- 16 Abuse of Substances.- 17 The Ungrateful Child.- Five Coping Strategies.- 18 How to Develop a Rational Solution for Your Parent-Child Problem: Building a Decision-Tree.- 19 An Exercise in Decision-Making.- 20 Finding the Right Kind of Help.

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An excellent resource. - Booklist Could well become the landmark classic in this field of elder parenting. - Jack Smith, Syndicated Columnist

"An excellent resource.-Booklist Could well become the landmark classic in this field of ""elder parenting."" -Jack Smith, Syndicated Columnist"

An excellent resource.-Booklist Could well become the landmark classic in this field of elder parenting. -Jack Smith, Syndicated Columnist

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