The Middle Of Life

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depression, self-doubt, heartache and low spirits. They must also handle any kind of regret or feeling of failure about their time and place as a parent.
As a mid-life parent, some people (mostly women) can feel caught in the "sandwich generation". This means they are taking care of not only their children, but often grandparents all the way down to grandchildren. This would be a major stressor and crisis on the mid-life parent because they would feel as though they were not doing enough for each generation. Being sandwiched like this would also be a demanding and strenuous crisis because in this time when the older adult should be looking at their own lives and re-evaluating what is important to them, not dealing with the care of everyone else.
The mid-life transition, although it might be argued that it has no crisis aspects to it, involves asking questions about ones life and if this time of their life is a payoff for all the hard work they have done. It is a time to stop ...

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