No Mother, You Can’t!

Mother-daughter conflict is today’s canary-in-the-coalmine, and as I wrote in my 4-part blog for Medium on today’s estrangement trend, young adult daughters are revealing something vital about what it means to be a mother and a daughter in our patriarchal society. Attachment Theory, a popular human development theory about the emotional bond babies need from their primary caregiver for their emotional and developmental wellbeing, suggests that a…