Coping with your Grown Children

1. Front Matter

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2. The Problems with Adult Children

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3

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   2. Understanding Middle-Aged Parents and Their Adult Problem Children

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      Pages 5-15

   3. How Did All this Happen?

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      Pages 17-34

   4. How Conflict with Their Adult Children Can Harm Middle-Aged Parents

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      Pages 35-51

3. Defining and Locating Your Problem

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-55

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   2. Whose Problem? Yours, Mine, or Ours?

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      Pages 57-77

4. Shared Problems of Parents and Adult Children

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 78-80

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   2. The Unemptied Nest

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      Pages 81-94

   3. Dangling Grandchildren

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      Pages 95-101

   4. Fall Shorts

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      Pages 103-113

   5. Meddlesome Grandparents

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      Pages 115-121

   6. Injury and Illness

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      Pages 123-130

   7. Stepparents and Stepchildren

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      Pages 131-139

   8. Legal, Fiscal, and Other Plights

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      Pages 141-146

5. Individual Problems Growing Out of Differing Lifestyles

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-149

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   2. Individual Problems of Parents of Adult Children

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      Pages 151-155

   3. Life Styles and Meaningful Realtionships

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      Pages 157-165

   4. Gay or Lesbian Children

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      Pages 167-175

   5. Cult Memberships

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      Pages 177-184

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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• children
• coping
• demography
• education
• ethics
• feeling
• relationships
• sexuality
• stress

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

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