How to Talk to Your Adult Children About Really Important Things

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Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-12-01
Publisher(s): Jossey-Bass
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Summary

How to Talk to Your Adult Children About Really Important Things is a hands-on guide for parents who want to talk to their adult children about challenging issues and sensitive topics such as alternative lifestyles, financial self-reliance, relationships, your divorce or your child2s divorce, moving out, moving back home, parenting, grandparenting, sibling relationships, substance abuse, depression, dependence, independence, and more.

Author Biography

Theresa Foy DiGeronimo, M.Ed., is coauthor of the best-selling How to Talk to Your Kids About Really Important Things (1994), How to Talk to Your Teens About Really Important Things (1999), and author of How To Talk to Your Senior Parents About Really Important Things (2001) all from Jossey-Bass. She is adjunct professor of English at The William Paterson University of New Jersey. She lives in Hawthorne, New Jersey with her husband and three children.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1(4)
LIFE TOPICS 5(84)
Alternative Lifestyles
7(26)
Careers
33(18)
Your Adult Child's Homosexuality
51(24)
Cohabitation: Yours and Theirs
75(14)
FAMILY ISSUES 89(112)
Sibling Relationships
91(18)
Moving Out
109(18)
Marriage
127(20)
Grandparenting
147(20)
Your Divorce
167(18)
Your Adult Child's Divorce
185(16)
PROBLEM AREAS 201(106)
Extended Dependency
203(24)
Financial Ties
227(20)
Substance Abuse
247(20)
Depression
267(20)
Physical Domestic Abuse
287(20)
Chapter Notes 307(2)
The Author 309

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