What makes parents happiest, according to recent research, is good relationships with their adult children. It is a critical part of family life that we wish could last much longer than the twenty or so years it takes to raise a child.

However, paradoxically, while books on adolescent coexistence abound, this specific topic is rarely discussed. As more and more young people in their twenties and thirties return to their parents' homes—or never left—the parents who assumed their job was done discover that they are actually at the beginning of a completely new chapter.

Accessible and readable, debunking many social taboos and… guilt, this book is one of the first to address the creation of a strong and lasting bond with children once they reach adulthood.

Filled with practical advice, interviews with experts, with parents and their offspring, as well as their grandchildren's offspring, it is a valuable, modern "manual."

It is the first to address parents of adult children and covers many stages of their relationship, including welcoming the daughter-in-law or son-in-law, new forms of multicultural families, as well as caring for grandchildren and adult children with special needs.