The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her "job" is that the children's growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced as a refutation of the mother's indispensability, and she may unconsciously sabotage their growth as a result.


Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier (ed. McGraw-Hill Companies, 1983)

Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes

The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her job is that the children's growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced as a...

The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her job is that the children's growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced as a...

The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her job is that the children's growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced as a...

The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her job is that the children's growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced as a...