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Aging parents

Here are entered works on parents who have grown old and whose children are middle-aged or older. Works on persons who became parents after reaching middle age are entered under Older parents.

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• Parents

• Aging parents -- Drama

• Elderly parents
• Parents, Aged

• King Lear, by William Shakespeare (multiple editions)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Wieland: or, The Transformation; Together with Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist: A Fragment (New York: Hafner Pub. Co., 1958), by Charles Brockden Brown, ed. by Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wieland: or, The Transformation; Together with Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist: A Fragment (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1926), by Charles Brockden Brown, ed. by Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wieland: or, The Transformation, by Charles Brockden Brown (Gutenberg text)

• To the Lighthouse (first published 1927), by Virginia Woolf (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
• To the Lighthouse (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1927), by Virginia Woolf (page images at HathiTrust)

• Peggy Stewart (New York: Macmillan, 1911), by Gabrielle E. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peggy Stewart at Home (Chicago: Goldsmith Pub. Co., 1920), by Gabrielle E. Jackson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Peggy Stewart, Navy Girl, At Home, by Gabrielle E. Jackson (Gutenberg text)

• The Little Grey House (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1904), by Marion Ames Taggart, illust. by Ethel Franklin Betts (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Hamlet, by William Shakespeare (multiple editions)

• Contraceptive Use and Controlled Fertility: Health Issues for Women and Children (1989), ed. by Allan M. Parnell (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk: Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Denise Roth Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Medieval West (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1991), by Clarissa W. Atkinson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Candles in the Roman Rite (third edition; Baltimore: A. Gross Candle Co., 1937), by Edwin Ryan, illust. by James R. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Read This Before Coming Out to Your Parents (c1995), by Tom Sauerman (HTML at bidstrup.com)

• Enlightened Motherhood: An Address by Mrs. Frances E. W. Harper, Before the Brooklyn Literary Society, November 15th, 1892, by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (HTML at loc.gov)

• Nurturing Fatherhood: Improving Data and Research on Male Fertility, Family Formation, and Fatherhood, by Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics (HTML at hhs.gov)

• A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics (New York and London: New York University Press, 1998), by Mark E. Kann (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• No Basis: What the Studies Don't Tell Us About Same-Sex Parenting (2001), by Robert Lerner and Althea K. Nagai (PDF with commentary at archive.org)

• No Basis: What the Studies Don't Tell Us About Same-Sex Parenting (2001), by Robert Lerner and Althea K. Nagai (PDF with commentary at archive.org)

• Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1993), by Ellen Lewin
  • Epub with commentary at Cornell Open (PDF link might not work)
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Repaying Debts (New York: Council of State Governments Justice Center, c2007), by Rachel L. McLean and Michael D. Thompson (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)

• Preventing Low Birthweight: Summary (1995), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1993), by Ellen Lewin
  • Epub with commentary at Cornell Open (PDF link might not work)
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Report to Congress on Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing (1995), by National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.) (PDF at cdc.gov)

• Night Sweats: An Unexpected Pregnancy (2013), by Linda Crossett (multiple formats at archive.org via newrambler.net)

• Risking the Future: Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing (1987), ed. by Sandra L. Hofferth and Cheryl D. Hayes (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Access to and Use of Vocational Education in Teen Parent Programs, by Gail Zellman, Christine Feifer, and Amy Hirsch (PDF files at rand.org)

• Women's Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1987), by Patricia Zavella (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Old Maid (The 'Fifties) (1924), by Edith Wharton (text at Gutenberg Australia)

• Stella Dallas: A Novel (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1923), by Olive Higgins Prouty (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Mary Marie (1920), by Eleanor H. Porter (Gutenberg text)
• Mary Marie (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1920), by Eleanor H. Porter, illust. by Helen Mason Grose (multiple formats at archive.org)

• How and Why Lisa's Dad Got to Be Famous (c2006), by Michael Allen (PDF in the UK)

• Stella Dallas: A Novel (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1923), by Olive Higgins Prouty (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Families Without Fatherhood (third edition, c2000), by Norman Dennis and George Erdos, contrib. by A. H. Halsey and Peter Saunders (PDF at Civitas)

• The Importance of Fathers in the Healthy Development of Children (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2006), by Jeffrey Rosenberg and William Bradford Wilcox (HTML and PDF at childwelfare.gov)

• You Never Can Tell, by Bernard Shaw (Gutenberg text)

• David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
  • searchable HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text; 2 MB
• David Copperfield (2 volumes; Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, ca. 1850), by Charles Dickens, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Confessions of a Daddy (New York: The Century Co., 1907), by Ellis Parker Butler, illust. by Fanny Y. Cory (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Children's Story of David Copperfield (adaptation of Dickens by unknown author; Racine, WI: Whitman Pub. Co., 1926), by Charles Dickens, illust. by Ray Gleason (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in the Gambia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), by Richard A. Schroeder (HTML at UC Press)

• Beyond Patriarchy: Jewish Fathers and Families (Hanover, NH, and London: Brandeis University Press, University Press of New England, c2000), by Lawrence H. Fuchs (PDF at Brandeis)

• Grandpa! Grandpa! Write Stories to Me! (fourth edition, 2006), by Meyer Moldeven (HTML at AOL)

• Letters to Mothers (Hartford: Hudson and Skinner, 1838), by L. H. Sigourney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mother and Her Work (Boston: American Tract Society, c1862), by H. E. Brown (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Radiant Motherhood: A Book for Those Who Are Creating the Future (London: G.P. Putnam's Sons; Toronto: Musson Book Co., 1920), by Marie Carmichael Stopes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Family Monitor and Domestic Guide (uniform American edition of The Women of England, The Daughters of England, The Wives of England, and The Mothers of England; New York: E. Walker, ca. 1844), by Sarah Stickney Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.