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We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent.

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.

Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.

The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.

I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.

When you have a child, you think about your personal history and what you offer them as a larger narrative, and I realised I knew nothing about my father's circumstances other than what he'd told me.

The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.

Once upon a time, if you wanted to talk about the notion of child abandonment, of a mother not being a good mother, that's built into the mother who sends the babes into the woods, and they use the bits of bread or stones to come home again.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

In parenting, as in judging, the days are long, but the years are short.