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Doing The Right Thing: Taking Care Of Your Elderly Parents Even If They Didn't Take Care Of You

11:00 Roberta Satow: "Doing the Right Thing" (Tarcher Penguin)

As Americans live longer, more and more children are taking care of their elderly parents. A look at caring for your parents even if they didn't do a good job caring for you.

Guests

Roberta Satow, chairperson of the Department of Sociology at Brooklyn College, is a practicing psychoanalyst.

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Parents are supposed to love and support their kids, but what happens when the roles are reversed and parents become dependent on their children-especially when those parents never really took care of their children in the first place? According to psycho-analyst Roberta Satow, caring for our parents-and doing it with love-is the only thing to do. Dr. Satow joins host Mike Cuthbert in a discussion about her new book, Doing the Right Thing.

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