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Part III
Topics in Separation, Visitation, and Reunification
observation makes sense in light of teenagers’ need to push off from
a secure base into autonomy, a process that becomes complicated by
guilt and anger and grief when that secure base is incapacitated or
absent entirely. In some cases, a teenager will idealize the absent parent
at the cost of her relationship with other caregivers, an experience that
can push a parent who is already coping with an ill partner and doing
double duty at home to the breaking point.
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