Explains what happens when children come of age and leave home, creating new lives in the realms of work and relationships. Bouvard covers the many invisible issues facing mothers of adult children from around the world and celebrates the outstanding accomplishments of those who mother through hardship. --From publisher description.
When nana becomes a mother -- Mad hearts -- Rethinking Salvadorian mothers, suffering, and sacrifice in a transnational context : politics of engagement -- Mothering adult daughters in contemporary Poland : fluctuating scripts of -- Femininity in post-transitional society -- Motherhood and the empty nest : the challenges of letting go -- Prodigal sons and daughters : mothers experiences of adult children -- Returning home -- Mothering adult sons versus daughters : the role of the spouse -- Mothering adult children with special needs : handing in the uniform -- Mothering for life? fractured maternal narratives, care and intellectual -- Disability -- An adult daughter lost in alcohol -- Mothering in war -- The truth is never ideal -- Mothering lost and found adult children -- Dreaming of mothering; waking to joy and tears -- Rules of engagement : grandmothers, daughters and the mothering of mothers -- Generations.