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Preferred term
empty nest
Definition
- The term empty nest refers primarily to a feeling of loneliness, depression, sadness, and grief that parents, especially mothers, feel when one or more of their children leave the childhood home, either temporarily or permanently. This feeling may result in a loss of purpose and crisis of identity for the parents, especially the mother.The Separation-Individuation ProcessThe clinical definition of separation and individuation is the emotional ability to form one's own sense of self, with one's own opinions, thoughts, and feelings, and to keep emotional boundaries in relationships. [Source: Encyclopedia of Motherhood; Empty Nest]
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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-K6XSCD8C-0
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