Between Fathers and Daughters: Enriching and Rebuilding Your Adult Relationship

Nielsen, Linda. Between Fathers & Daughters: Enriching and Rebuilding Your Adult Relationship. Cumberland House. 2008. c.320p. pap. PSYCH~ An impressively straightforward tool for fathers and daughters interested in improving their relationships, as well as for professionals who work with these types of family dynamics. Recommended for public libraries and university libraries supporting the helping professions. Background: Nielsen (Embracing Your Father), president of the American Coalition for Fathers & Children, draws on her extensive teaching and research experience to illuminate the roots of father-daughter conflict. The author provides a wealth of suggestions on how fathers and daughters can reconcile, rebuild, and enrich shaky--even nonexistent--relationships and examines the impact of negative portrayals of fathers in the media. Nielsen addresses improving communication and understanding, how fathers and daughters can come to terms with differences of opinion about lifestyles and money management, deal with divorce and remarriage, and reconcile the age-old tension between fathers and the sexuality of their daughters.--Dale Farris, Groves, TX.