Psychoanalytic Reflections on Parenting Teens and Young Adults explores the rich, multi-layered parent-child interactions that unfold during the period of separation and launching. While this is a necessary transitional time, parents inevitably experience feelings of loss and longing for the past as well as hope for the future.

Preface; Introduction Anne J. Adelman Part I Parenting In the Digital Age Chapter 1 What Is Lost, What Is Gained in the Digital Age Anne J. Adelman Chapter 2 Growing Up in a World of Cell Phone Technology Christie M. Platt Part II Developmental Concerns Chapter 3 Holding On with Open Arms: Adult Children Living at Home Michelle Flax Chapter 4 It Is Hard to See the Forest When the Trees Are Too Loud: Notes on Autism Parenting Nancy J. Crown Chapter 5 Mastering the Fear of Life-Threatening Food Allergies: Matt's Story Lizbeth A. Moses Chapter 6 Parenting My Disabled Sister Devra Adelstein Chapter 7 Parenting through Enactments of Loss Karen Earle Part III Unbound: New Definitions of Gender Chapter 8 Personal Essay: Mapping Modern Grief Mary Collins Chapter 9 Transparenting: Journey without a Map Irene Smith Landsman Chapter 10 Gay Fatherhood and the Homosexual Imaginary: Reparative Fantasies, Parenting Across the Gender Divide, and Good-Enough Narratives Noah S. Glassman Part IV Social Topics Chapter 11 Raising Children Cross-Culturally Hemda Arad Chapter 12 Book versus Booze Elizabeth Trawick Chapter 13 "Likening" the "Other": Identifying and Dis-identifying in Adoptive Parenting Billie Pivnick Part V Building Resilience Chapter 14 Personal Essay: Shining Through Kerry Leddy Malawista Chapter 15 No Going Back to Before Ann V. Klotz Concluding Remarks Anne J. Adelman