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...year-old with 80-year-old parents, you may think that the sibling rivalries and parental hurts of your childhood are history. Fat chance. Simmering resentment between siblings has a nasty way of re-erupting as boomers confront the reality of caring for aging parents. "We have an unexpressed wish that our parents will someday acknowledge the injustices done us," notes University of Pittsburgh elder-law professor Larry Frolik. "Someday Mom will understand that I'm as smart as my rich older brother or will finally admit, 'Honey, your husband's really a swell...
...dilemmas adult children must confront at that point, caregiving--who does it, where it is done, how it is shared (or not)--is one of the most charged. The practical tasks occur in the midst of one of our most difficult emotional passages as adults. Our parents' frailty forces us to confront our own mortality. And in that emotionally volatile atmosphere, the psychic baggage from childhood complicates the important work of caregiving...
...Most of this is nonsense. The Gods of Wisdom are bored. They are suffering fight-deprivation syndrome. The big spring battle in the Senate over filibuster rules and judicial appointments was resolved through compromise; Social Security has been talked to death; and the insipid Democrats have refused to confront the President on issues that actually matter, like the need for a comprehensive health-insurance overhaul or the absence of a coherent strategy in Iraq. The titillation of the trivial-the tendency to rate the presidency solely on the polling and politics of the moment-means that Bush has largely escaped...
While Skocpol settles into the post next year and begins to confront these problems, Ellison says he plans to take a sabbatical...
...philosophy and aesthetics at Harvard and nobody would give me the time of day,” says Maxwell, recalling a day during the blizzard of 1978 when she discovered the diaries of Thoreau in Widener library. “I went into the woods to live deliberately, to confront the essential facts of life,” she quotes from Thoreau’s Walden. “Part of the reason I wanted to dance was because I felt that dancers did this...