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This book examines how marriage changes relationships with parents. The author demonstrates that while most mothers do not feel that they "lose" their sons following marriage, the relationships do change in significant ways, yet their relationships with married daughters do not change as drastically. She offers advice, as well, for navigating the changes and maintaining strong ties to both sons and daughters after they marry

Table Of Contents

Introduction

Illustrations of intergenerational relationships

Relationships between parents and adult children

Gender differences in contact with parents and in-laws : do couples see more of her family than his?

"A daughter is a daughter all of her life, but a son is a son 'til he takes him a wife" : "myth or reality"

The effect of marriage on intergenerational relationships

The challenges for mothers in parent and adult child relationships

The evolution of intergenerational relationships following children's marriages

Divorce and later life families

Advice to mothers for maintaining intergenerational relationships

Reciprocal effects? : how do intergenerational relationships affect adult children's marriages?