For most parents not being involved in their children’s everyday life may create a temporary identity crisis. Parents especially mothers may become depressed, anxious and very emotional. According to Feldman, there has been a significant increase in the United States in the number of young adults who come back to live in the homes of their middle-aged parents. These children are known as boomerang children in which their main reasons for returning home is because of economic issues (i.e. not being able to find a job after college or not being able to make ends meet with the job that they already have, Feldman, 2011; p.522).
My mother experienced the empty nest syndrome when I got married and left home. She expressed anger, loneliness, and depression because she felt that when I got married that I was going to move far away from her and my father. Like I stated in last week post by me being a preacher’s kid it requires a lot of responsibility and dedication; out of all my parents children I am the only sibling that is devoted to helping my parents’ ministry. Therefore, my mother felt that by me getting married that her helper was gone. After I got married my husband and I stayed in Florida for three months and my mother did not speak to me any because she was anger about me leaving. After I returned back to South Carolina she felt relieved.
In the empty-nest study, researchers compared the women’s marital happiness in their 40s, when many still had children at home; in their early 50s, when some had older children who
References: Feldman, Robert S. (2011). Development Across the Life Span. Sixth Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ. Prentice Hall Pope-Parker, Tara. "Your Nest Is Empty? Enjoy Each Other"; Published January 19, 2009. Retrieved by http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/health/20well.html. Proverbs 22:6, King James Version Bible.