Improving Father-Daughter Relationships

This engaging, no-nonsense book by father-daughter relationships expert, Dr. Linda Nielsen, offers a step-by-step guide for fathers and daughters to build a more comfortable and meaningful relationship and resolve issues still hanging over them from the past.

Linda Nielsen, EdD, is a professor in the Education Department at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. A member of the faculty for 52 years, she is a nationally recognized researcher and expert on father-daughter relationships. Her work has appeared in many forums, including a PBS documentary, National Public Radio, CNN, Time, Newsweek, Oprah, Forbes, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. For more than three decades, she has taught the only college course in the country exclusively devoted to father-daughter relationships. In 2023, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Research Award by the National Parenting Organization for the worldwide impact of her work on shared parenting after divorce and father-daughter relationships.

1. Introduction 2. Communicating and problem-solving 3. Money: Minefields and misunderstandings 4. The daughter's lifestyle 5. Mothers: Their impact on father-daughter relationships 6. Dad's divorce and remarriage 7. The final stage: Father's aging and dying