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An Aging Parent’s Frustrations, Heard but Not Absorbed
A Lost Father, and a Daughter Who’s Not Ready to Let Him Go
‘Mother Daughter Me’: The Best Memoir I’ve Read This Year
Everybody Dies
Examining the Hazards of Older Parenthood
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An Aging Parent’s Frustrations, Heard but Not Absorbed
For years, I've been listening as my once-vibrant father transfers his frustration with his chronic ailments onto me. But when I hang up the phone, I hang up his dissatisfaction, too. Read More...
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Mon, Dec 12 2014 11:25 AM
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A Lost Father, and a Daughter Who’s Not Ready to Let Him Go
The Friday before Father's Day last year, my dad, an Alzheimer's patient, wandered off from my mother at the grocery store. I'd been saying goodbye to him for almost a decade, but I wasn't ready to lose him. Read More...
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Fri, Jun 06 2014 6:56 AM
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‘Mother Daughter Me’: The Best Memoir I’ve Read This Year
"Mother Daughter Me," by Katie Hafner, is the most raw, honest and engaging memoir I've read in a long time. Read More...
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Everybody Dies
We should talk more, and more matter-of-factly, with children about death. Read More...
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Tue, Jan 01 2013 7:39 AM
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Examining the Hazards of Older Parenthood
To dial back the age at which we have children for not just some, but most adults, we're going to have to change the way Western societies approach family policy. Should we? Read More...
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Shulevitz, Judith