Mothering Styles

| June 12, 2012

In the book she co-authored with Stephan Poulter, “Mending the Broken Bough” (Berkley, 1998, $13), family therapist Barbara Zax identifies different styles of mothering. There is no pure type of mother, she said, but most mothers have one distinctive style along with bits of each of the others. The book is about mothers and daughters, [...]