This book will help parents to understand their roles and responsibilities of parenting adult children. It offers answers to why relationships between parents and grown children are often disappointing and hurtful, introducing useful ways to redefine our relationsips with our "kids."

This book combines Irene's experience as a teacher, mother, and family and couples therapist with interviews from parents of all walks of life. This timely book and the accompanying workshop offers humor and insight into a relationship issue that is in the forefront of baby boomers everywhere.