LOST FATHERS: How Women Can Heal from Adolescent Father Loss
Laraine Herring, . . Hazelden, $12.95 (300pp) ISBN 978-1-59285-155-3
The premise of this grief recovery manual is that adolescent girls suffer more than boys from the loss of a father, because females, still regarded culturally as less valuable than men, need to feel secure in the affection of a male figure. While not wholly convincing, Herring's volume argues further that from ages 12 to 21, when children begin separating from their parents, girls who lack a father can find this rite of passage more difficult or even impossible to accomplish. Herring, a creative writer (
Reviewed on: 02/21/2005
Genre: Nonfiction