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Laurel Kennedy
Author, The Daughter Trap
President, Age Lessons
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If you’re caring for an elderly parent,
you’re living The Daughter Trap—
the life we fall into when parents
require our help, and everyone else
expects it. We become caregivers
because we think it is the right thing
to do, a necessary thing to do, a loving
thing to do.
But, as anyone living The Daughter Trap
can tell you, it’s a tough thing to do.
We created this web site to honor you, recognize your contributions and provide
a place where you can come to share your experiences and get new ideas for
making caregiving easier and a shared family effort. |
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| Are You Living the Daughter Trap?
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Laurel Kennedy, author of The Daughter Trap: Taking Care of Mom, Dad... And You, explains why women are the ones to assume the responsibility of caring for elder parents, and how daughters can get their siblings to help!
Commitment Now.com: In The Daughter Trap, you reveal a disturbing truth, which is that regardless of how many husbands and siblings factor into the equation, it is almost always the daughter who gets handed the primary role in taking care of aging parents. What inspired you to write a book about this phenomenon?
Laurel Kennedy: It was my personal experience that inspired me to write this book, although I didn’t have most of the sibling issues. I wrote it for my friends – and discovered that this is a core and visceral issue to which most people can immediately relate.
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