Young Adult Daughters' Accounts of Relationships With Nonresidential Fathers: Relational Damage,Repair, and Maintenance |
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| Authors: | Adena B K Miller |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Sociology , University of Western Ontario , London, Ontario, Canada amill@uwo.ca |
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| Abstract: | This article explores processes of relational damage, repair, and maintenance within adult daughters' accounts of their current relationships with their nonresidential fathers. Drawing on research of a sample of self-selected adult daughters who experienced parental divorce in childhood, the author explores how the processes of relational damage, repair, and maintenance contribute to and are of consequence to adult daughters' understandings of their current relationships. The author demonstrates that it is through exploring the gathered relational histories that processes of relational development are highlighted, offering a way of better understanding the consequences of divorce on the construction of parent–child relationships throughout the life course. |
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| Keywords: | adult children parent–child relationships parental divorce relational damage relational repair and maintenance |
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