As a professor of child development and family science, every year I witness college students heading home for the holidays after a few months of relative independence. Anecdotally, most students ...

This chapter focuses on the relationship between parents and their young adult children, from the parents’ perspective. For many of the questions, parents were asked to think of a specific child ages ...

There is no instruction manual that can prepare you for the ups and downs of raising a tiny human into a competent and responsible adult; many parents are simply trying their best and hoping that the ...

College students and other young adults being at home for the holidays may present new challenges in the parent-child relationship. Photo by Element5 Digital/Pexels As a professor of child development ...