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Coping with your Grown Children [electronic resource] / by Edwin L. Klingelhofer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana, 1989Edition: 1st ed. 1989Description: XVI, 284 p. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781461245643
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 150 23
LOC classification:
  • BF1-990
Online resources:
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.
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: 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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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.

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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