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2. Father Loss: Daughters Discuss Life, Love, and Why Losing a Dad Means So Much I found this book very meaningful. It moved me, and I recommend it to any woman who thinks of her father as the man that got away. &#8211Babra StreisandAs Elyce Wakerman found in the scores of interviews she conducted, the loss of a father&#8212through death, divorce, or abandonment&#8212isthe event that shapes a girl&#8217slife and all her future relationships. &#8220Inmy fantasy,&#8221one woman commented, &#8220heremains the perfect, all-giving man&#8221#8212a difficult role for any other man to fill. Based partly on the author&#8217sexperience, partly on her in-depth interviews, and partly on a questionnaire she developed with psychologist Holly Barrett to which almost six hundred women responded, Father Loss provides the clearest portrait yet of a very special group of women. Chapters include:A Subject I Can Speak of: &#8220MyFather Died When I Was Three&#8221ASubject of Research: The Father-Daughter RelationshipA Parody of Incest: Women Who Never Knew Their FathersA Face Not Even a Father Could Love: Daughters of Paternal SuicideMy Mother&#8212th Widow, the Divorc&#233e#8212Myself: Mother as Head of the HouseholdMake Room for the New Daddy: StepfathersIt&#8217sthe Child That Makes the Woman: Self-image and OthersA Match Made in Heaven&#8230orElsewhere: Attitudes Toward Marriage and the FamilyWomen with Wounds That Will Not HealAnd more!As a group, they express their insecurities (&#8220Soetimes I wonder if I&#8217llever be able to love a man totally . . . because that would mean I didn&#8217tlove my father anymore.&#8221&#8212Lelie). Yet individually,

3. many have become outstanding achievers, including Eleanor Roosevelt (&#8220Hedominated my life as long as he lived and was the love of my life for years after he died.&#8221, Helen Gurney Brown (&#8220Peple in business, my bosses, I look to them all as fathers.&#8221, Barbara Streisand, Gloria Steinem, Geraldine Ferraro and many others.A bestseller when it was first published twenty-five years ago and now updated and revised, Father Loss gives information and insight to fatherless daughters, to widows and divorcees with daughters, and to every father who needs to understand the vital role he plays in his daughter&#8217slife&#8212asthe first man she ever loves.

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