Good Daughters Loving Our Mothers as They Age
by Patricia Beard |
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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (June 01 1999)
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Read an ExcerptThe Culture
Why is it so difficult to be a good daughter to an aging mother now? Partly it is hard because of the changes in the culture that our generation has made. As Victoria Secunda writes in When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends, Women who today are in The Sandwich Generation: The Facts
The expression used to describe those who are flanked by growing children and aging parents, the sandwich generation, does not quite cover the forces that threaten to scatter both bread and filling, causing the sandwich to fall apart.
About the Author  Patricia Beard
Patricia Beard is Editor at Large for Elle, a contributing writer to Town & Country and Mirabella, and her articles have appeared in many other national magazines. She is the author of Growing Up Republican, a biography of Christine Todd Whitman, the first woman governor of New Jersey.. » More by Patricia Beard
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