Coping with your Grown Children [Paperback]

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!
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!
One The Problems with Adult Children.- 1 Understanding Middle-Aged Parents and Their Adult Problem Children.- Intergenerational Conflict and You.- How You Can Avoid or Minimize Problems with Adult Children.- How to Tell Whether You Really Have a Problem.- How to Stop Taking the Blame for Your Adult Childs Actions.- How Problems with Adult Children Can Hurt You.- What You Can Do to Meet Problems Coolly and Constructively.- 2 How Did All This Happen ?.- Individual Change and Conflict Between Generations.- Social Change and the Conflict Between Generations.- Technological Change.- Social Factors.- Demographic Factors.- Economic Factors.- Political Factors.- Religious Factors.- Educational Factors.- 3 How Conflict with Their Adult Children Can Harm Middle-Aged Parents.- The Stress of Life.- Stress and Physical and Psychological Illness.- How You Canl3.