Grown-Up Children, Grown-Up Parents: Opening the Door to Healthy Relationships Between Parents and Adult Children

Avoiding psycho-palaver, Lieber, a family counselor, and Murphy, director of Counseling for the Long Island Advisory Centers, offer advice on ways to maintain constructive relationships between generations while avoiding ``dependence or domination'' on either side. Assisted by freelance writer Schwartz, the authors provide helpful suggestions for handling delicate topics such as unconventional lifestyles, illegitimate children and crime. They deal perceptively with the ``dividend'' and responsibility of grandparenting and with major changes like widowhood in parents' lives and their effects on parent-child relationships. Chapters include lists of practical tips as well as exercises. (Nov.)