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Contrary to all we hear about women and their empty-nest problem, it may be fathers more often than mothers who are pained by thechildren's imminent or actual departure--fathers who want to hold back the clock, to keep the children in the home for just a little longer. Repeatedly women compare their own relief to their husband's distress

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Lillian B. Rubin
Age: 90 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 13
Died: 2014
Died: June 17
Author
Feminist
Psychologist
Sociologist
Writer
Lillian B. Rubin
Lillian Breslow Rubin
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Husband
Fathers
Women
Hold
Mothers
Pained
Home
Longer
Relief
Imminent
Littles
Hear
Actual
Nest
May
Often
Compare
Repeatedly
Back
Father
Clock
Nests
Little
Keep
Contrary
Departure
Children
Mother
Empty
Distress

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