Tanka Series: Mother and Daughter EstrangementDETORE, JOANNE L.Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research & Community Involvement
Story:The story of a dysfunctional family in Northern France. Dad is a mean abusive drunk pharmacist, mom is addicted to pills and has incestuous desire for her son, the son is skipping school to fish and daughter is mentally handicapped. ...
These are all anecdotal, of course, but combined with psychological research they testify to the incredible complexity of the mother-daughter relationship and the forces that may lie behind this particular type of estrangement. Keep in mind that there are other underlying causes as well w...
“mere” motherhood, it told a dozen variations of it, from vicious to heart-wrenching, and every one different. And then it went further and took us into daughterhood, sisterhood, and even fatherhood. I can’t even tell you how much I loved Yi-jin’s son saying that he wanted to ...
In this article, the author explores the myths of a good mother in the novels of Amy Tan after an estrangement between mothers and daughters. In "The Joy Luck Club," daughter Jing mei Woo created a myth that her mother Suyuan Woo is not ... SM Mathews - 《Language in India》 被引量...
However, this day, they called a truce on their estrangement ritual, and rushed home together through the wind lashed terraces to their own street for news of the little one. Bessie informed them of the stark fact that no little brother had been forthcoming, and they tiptoed down the ...
Herestrangementfrom her dad — who has all but been exiled from his youngest child's life for many years — was born from a bitter rift that stemmed in large part from the mother-daughter duo's decision to cut ties with his controversial faith. ...
While the royal family endured several scandals, including an acrimonious divorce between her heir Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, as well the estrangement from the family of her grandson, Prince Harry and his American actress wife Meghan Markle, the queen was rarely see...
Such estrangements among celebrities are frequently played out in the full glare of publicity. An extreme example was the libel battle between barrister and part-time judge Constance Briscoe and her mother over Ugly, Briscoe's bestselling account of her mother's cruelty towards her as a child....
This is because the daughter may unconsciously sense that her full empowerment may trigger the mother’s sadness or rage at having had to give up parts of herself in her own life. Her compassion for her mother, a desire to please her, and a fear of conflict may cause her to convince he...