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Good Daughtering: The Work You’ve Always Done, the Credit You’ve Never Gotten, and How to Finally Feel Like Enough

byAllison M. Alford

Family-communication scholar Allison M. Alford names the often invisible work adult daughters perform for parents and relatives: organizing care, remembering needs, managing emotions, smoothing conflict, and remaining perpetually available. Drawing on research and personal stories, she explains how gender, birth order, culture, obligation, and family history create expectations that can feel impossible to satisfy. The book offers language for recognizing this labor and tools for setting boundaries without abandoning connection. Alford helps daughters replace the pursuit of perfect devotion with a more sustainable understanding of care, responsibility, and enough.

Publisher

HarperOne

Publication date

2026-02-17

Format

Hardcover

Pages

240

ISBN

9780063436428