"A daughter needs a loving, available, predictable father……" — Victoria Secunda
"A daughter needs a loving, available, predictable father or father figure who can be counted on, whether divorced or at home. She needs his best paternal intentions, even if his efforts occasionally fall short. She needs his maturity and limit setting and sexual oppositeness, so that she can function with confidence in the wider world of adult love and work."
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Victoria Secunda
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7 Quotes by Victoria Secunda
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father,…
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or confident - it is…
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For even the most nurturing, devoted, loving stepfather has, with a stepdaughter, an uphill battle. The relationship can test the…
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Unlike the mother-son relationship, a daughter's relationship with her mother is something akin to bungee diving. She can stake her…
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A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And…
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