Table of Contents
One The Problems with Adult Children.- 1 Understanding Middle-Aged Parents and Their Adult Problem Children.- 2 How Did All This Happen—.- 3 How Conflict with Their Adult Children Can Harm Middle-Aged Parents.- 4 Whose Problem? Yours, Mine, or Ours?.- Three Shared Problems of Parents and Adult Children.- 5 The Unemptied Nest.- 6 Dangling Grandchildren.- 7 Fall Shorts.- 8 Meddlesome Grandparents.- 9 Injury and Illness.- 10 Stepparents and Stepchildren.- 11 Legal, Fiscal, and Other Plights.- Four Individual Problems Growing Out of Differing Lifestyles.- 12 Individual Problems of Parents of Adult Children.- 13 Lifestyles and Meaningful Relationships.- 14 Gay or Lesbian Children.- 15 Cult Memberships.- 16 Abuse of Substances.- 17 The Ungrateful Child.- Five Coping Strategies.- 18 How to Develop a Rational Solution for Your Parent-Child Problem: Building a Decision-Tree.- 19 An Exercise in Decision-Making.- 20 Finding the Right Kind of Help.
