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The bond siblings develop in childhood may be vastly different from the relationship that evolves in adulthood. Driven by affection but also characterized by ambivalence and ambiguity, adult sibling relationships can become hurtful, uncertain, competitive, or exhausting though the undercurrents of love and loyalty remain. An approach that recognizes the positive aspects of the changing sibling relationship, as well as those that need improvement, can restore healthy ties and rebuild family closeness.With in-depth case studies of more than 260 siblings over the age of forty and interviews with experts on mental health and family interaction, this book offers vital direction for traversing the emotional terrain of adult sibling relations. It pursues a richer understanding of ambivalence, a normal though little explored feeling among siblings, and how ambiguity about the past or present can lead to miscommunication and estrangement. For both professionals and general readers, this book clarifies the most confounding elements of sibling relationships and provides specific suggestions for realizing new, productive avenues of friendship in middle and later life-skills that are particularly important for siblings who must cooperate to care for aging parents or give immediate emotional or financial support to other siblings or family members.

Siblings. --- Sibling rivalry. --- Developmental psychology. --- Adulthood --- Siblings --- Psychological aspects. --- Death.

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Adopted children --- Foster children --- Siblings. --- Family relationships. --- Family relationships.

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Brown, Bunny (Fictitious character) --- Brothers and sisters --- Bunny Brown (Fictitious character) --- Families --- Sibling relations --- Sisters and brothers --- Siblings

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Dona Lee Davis conducted conversational interviews with twenty-two sets of identical twins attending the Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio, the largest such gathering in the world. Lively and often opinionated, each twin comes through as a whole person who at the same time maintains a special bond that the vast majority of people will never experience. The study provides a distinctive and enlightening insider's challenge to the nature/nurture debates that dominate contemporary research on twins. The author, herself an identical twin, draws on aspects of her own life to inform her analysis of the data throughout the text. Each chapter addresses a different theme from multiple viewpoints, including those of popular science writers, scientific researchers, and singletons, as well as those of the twins themselves.

Twins --- Ethnology --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Physical Anthropology --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Human beings --- Brothers and sisters --- Multiple birth --- Social aspects --- Siblings

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On August 4, 2004, Jason Crigler was onstage in a New York City nightclub when a blood vessel burst in his brain. The thirty-four-year-old guitarist, a fixture in the downtown music scene who had played with Marshall Crenshaw, Linda Thompson, and John Cale, narrowly survived the bleed. A string of complications that followed-meningitis, seizures, coma-left him immobile and unresponsive, with his doctors saying nothing more could be done. Meanwhile, Jason's medical insurance quickly hit its lifetime cap, meaning that his policy would no longer pay for his care. Despite such overwhelming circums

Brain damage --- Brothers and sisters --- Brain --- Psychology, Pathological --- Sibling relations --- Siblings --- Sisters and brothers --- Families --- Sibling abuse --- Patients --- Rehabilitation. --- Family relationships --- Diseases --- Wounds and injuries --- Crigler, Jason --- Health.