Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times--long, long before the industrial revolution--and, as it is now,….

Parenting can be established as a time-share job, but mothers are less good "switching off" their parent identity and turning to something else. Many….

One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity--not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification ofthe range of what we….

It is not however, adulthood itself, but parenthood that forms the glass shroud of memory. For there is an interesting quirk in the memory of women. ….

Adolescents swing from euphoric self-confidence and a kind of narcissistic strength in which they feel invulnerable and even immortal, to despair, se….

This is the hope of many adolescent girls--to capture a parent's heart with love for them as they are, as people. They reject thenotion of being love….

Adolescent girls were fighting a mother's interference because they wanted her to acknowledge their independence. Whatever resentment they had was no….

Insults from an adolescent daughter are more painful, because they are seen as coming not from a child who lashes out impulsively,who has moments of ….

Adolescents, for all their self-involvement, are emerging from the self-centeredness of childhood. Their perception of other people has more depth. T….

Sexual activity, for women, has a history of vulnerability, in a way it simply does not have for men. The mother has to teach thishidden text to her ….

The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic unconscious dynamic w….

Parents are never forgiven for not giving just the right response at the appropriate moment. Or, rather, there are particular times in the adolescent….

Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly..

The family is constantly changing, as each member changes. Some changes we recognize as developments, and the pleasure they bringusually makes us mor….

We may be aware of small increments of getting older; we may meet an increasing number of people who make us uneasy with their youth; but the fact of….

Adolescents do get very angry with their parents, and acknowledging this anger is part of acknowledging them. If the anger is notacknowledged then it….

Preoccupied with her self, the adolescent sees enormous changes, whereas the parent sees the child she knew all along. For the parent, new developmen….

The myth of independence from the mother is abandoned in mid- life as women learn new routes around the mother--both the mother without and the mothe….

When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness-hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflic….