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How Mother Loss Shapes the Parents We Become
HarperCollins
May 2006
448 pages
ISBN: 0060532459
Hardcover
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When Hope Edelman finished writing Motherless
Daughters, she thought she had said all she could about
the long-term effects of early mother loss. Published in
1994, the book touched a nerve in women across the country
and went on to become an enduring New York Times
bestseller. Edelman, who was seventeen when her own mother
died, told the collective story of mother loss with such
candor, empathy, and informed wisdom that she quickly became
a widely recognized expert on the topic. But when
she became a parent, she found herself revisiting her loss
in ways she had never anticipated. Now the mother of two
young girls, Edelman set out to learn how the loss of a
mother to death or abandonment can affect the ways women
raise their own children. From her exhaustive investigation,
including a survey of more than one thousand women, comes
Motherless Mothers, the enlightening and inspiring
next step in the motherless journey. Using her own
story as a prism, Edelman reveals the unique anxieties and
desires these mothers experience as they raise their
children without the help of a living maternal guide. She
examines their parenting choices, their unexpected triumphs,
and their fears, from the initial decision to have a child,
through pregnancy, the delivery room, and the child-rearing
years. Identifying "Eight Themes of Motherless Mothers" that
cut across all racial, ethnic, and socio-economic lines,
Edelman illuminates how the experience of loss directly
impacts the ways in which these women parent their own
children. Enriched by the voices of the mothers
themselves, as well as filled with practical insight and
advice from experienced professionals, this impeccably
researched and luminously written book offers motherless
mothers the guidance and support they want and need.
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