Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood

by Lisa Damour

Don’t assume that your daughter’s insistence that you’re the only one who can make her a proper sandwich means that she will be living with you until she’s forty. If she’s independent, if she’s rejecting your help in other areas,

Forty

the spirit of Tolstoy’s apt line that “happy families are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” girls who are truly struggling usually need, and certainly

Family