A transformative look at the hidden work of adult daughters, offering a fresh perspective on caregiving, emotional resilience, and the power daughters have to shape healthier, more fulfilling family connections--for readers of both Susan Cain's Quiet and Eve Rodsky's Fair Play. Daughters often grow up believing their role in the family is simple: love your parents, help out when you can, and carry on the traditions that bind you together. But adulthood reveals a more complicated reality--one where women take on the invisible labor of emotional caregiving, crisis management, and unspoken expectations that leave them stretched thin and unseen. So, what is "daughtering"? If you're a woman, it's the unpaid, invisible work of holding a family together. In Good Daughtering, Dr. Allison M. Alford...

A transformative look at the hidden work of adult daughters, offering a fresh perspective on caregiving, emotional resilience, and the power daughters have to shape healthier, more fulfilling family connections--for readers of both Susan Cain's Quiet and Eve Rodsky's Fair Play. Daughters often grow up believing their role in the family is simple: love your parents, help out when you can, and carry on the traditions that bind you together. But adulthood reveals a more complicated reality--one where women take on the invisible labor of emotional caregiving, crisis management, and unspoken expectations that leave them stretched thin and unseen. So, what is "daughtering"? If you're a woman, it's the unpaid, invisible work of holding a family together. In Good Daughtering, Dr. Allison M. Alford...