The Half-Parent - Brenda Maddox
living with other people's children
KORTE INHOUD
An honest exploration of the emotional and adjustmental problems, as well as the rewards, of living with other people's children - written by a half-parent, for and about the parent-by-marriage.
Much has been written about the step-child's woes and adaption problems to a new parent/ Little has been written about the similarly disruptive shock suffered by a new spouse cast suddenly into a dual role.
Brenda Maddox, seeking to evaluate the phenomenon of "second-parenting", examines myths dating from antiquity. She analyzes legal questions, etiquette, sexual tensions (does the incest taboo figure in the step-parent/step-child relationship, and is the term even applicable?), and the degree to which the step-parent should be a disciplinarian.
The rewards of half-parenting, Mrs. Maddox writes, are to be gleaned only when the parent-by-marriage realizes that he/she cannot replace the true parent, and when ambivalent feelings towards inherited children are discussed rather than repressed.
Lucid, authoritative, and enlight...
Much has been written about the step-child's woes and adaption problems to a new parent/ Little has been written about the similarly disruptive shock suffered by a new spouse cast suddenly into a dual role.
Brenda Maddox, seeking to evaluate the phenomenon of "second-parenting", examines myths dating from antiquity. She analyzes legal questions, etiquette, sexual tensions (does the incest taboo figure in the step-parent/step-child relationship, and is the term even applicable?), and the degree to which the step-parent should be a disciplinarian.
The rewards of half-parenting, Mrs. Maddox writes, are to be gleaned only when the parent-by-marriage realizes that he/she cannot replace the true parent, and when ambivalent feelings towards inherited children are discussed rather than repressed.
Lucid, authoritative, and enlight...
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