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Transition to the Empty NestCrisis, Challenge, or Relief?
Marjorie Fiske Lowenthal, MA;
David Chiriboga, PhD
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1972;26(1):8-14.
Abstract
The present study examines evidence for and against a midlife crisis in an intensively studied sample of 54 middle and lower-middle class men and women whose youngest child is about to leave home. While some members of the sample had serious problems, the confrontation of the empty nest, when compared with retrospections of the low points in the past and expectations of the future is not of a nature to justify use of the term "crisis." The departure of the youngest child, indeed, was generally anticipated with a sense of relief.
Author Affiliations
San Francisco
From the Adult Development Research Program, Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California, San Francisco.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication Oct 21, 1970.
Presented in condensed form at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Miami Beach, Fla, September 1970.
Reprint requests to Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California, 401 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco 94122 (Mrs. Lowenthal).
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