to parentify

[Tom Zurinskas]

Unparentifed would be a test tube baby I suppose.  Just a sperm-n-egger.


Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, then Tenn 3, NJ 33, now FL 9.
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> Poster: "Joel S. Berson"
> Subject: Re: to parentify
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> At 4/15/2011 12:31 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >Not in OED.
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> >A child psychologist on CNN explains that a little boy "was parentified at
> >an early age."
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> At birth? Or about nine months earlier? :-)
> Joel
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> >About 1,000 GB results. Not the earliest:
> >
> >1975 Max Sugar _The Adolescent in Group and Family Therapy_ (N.Y.:
> >Brunner-Mazel, 1975) 169 [GB: not verified]: Boszormenyi-Nagy (1972) has
> >described how the therapist is often "parentified" by parents who, until
> >then, tended to parentify their children.
> >
> >Sugar's sense seems to be "to regard or act toward as toward a parent."
> >Today's exx. seems to mean "to be assigned a care-giving role like that of a
> >parent."
> >
> >JL
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