The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence.

- Jeanne Elium

A girl must allow others to share the responsibility for care, thus enabling others to care for her. She must learn how to care inways appropriate to…

- Jeanne Elium

Parenting is not logical. If it were, we would never have to read a book, never need a family therapist, and never feel the urge to call a close frie…

- Jeanne Elium

A girl in the middle years also becomes more centered in her soul-life, the feelings of her heart, and she needs our guidance to learn to express her…

- Jeanne Elium

Fences, unlike punishments, clearly mark out the perimeters of any specified territory. Young children learn where it is permissible to play, because…

- Jeanne Elium

To begin to use cultural forces for the good of our daughters we must first shake ourselves awake from the cultural trance we all live in. This is no…

- Jeanne Elium

Somehow we have been taught to believe that the experiences of girls and women are not important in the study and understanding ofhuman behavior. If …

- Jeanne Elium