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Parenting adult children – invisible ties that bind?
Author(s) -
Gower Myrna,
Dowling Emilia
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.52
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-6427
pISSN - 0163-4445
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2008.00438.x
Subject(s) - narrative , developmental psychology , psychology , qualitative research , family ties , population , sociology , genealogy , social science , demography , history , philosophy , linguistics
This paper presents the authors' ideas about parenting adult children, describes some of the results of a larger qualitative research study and explores possible implications for practice. The study is based on in‐depth analyses of narratives from interviews of a non‐clinical population of parents of adult children. It represents part of an ongoing study to develop an understanding of an under‐researched area of family life.