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How to Help Your Daughter Embrace Womanhood When You Struggle With It Yourself

My teenage daughter got her period and cried for hours saying she didn't want to be a woman because she sees what it's done to me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The intergenerational transmission of female ambivalence about embodied womanhood creates a complex legacy to navigate.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Women's Health & Life Stages?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.