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Further reading
For excellent tips, polls, articles, and newsletters on empty nest, visit the following
websites:
- Empty Nest Support Services
— the joys and challenges of this major transition
- Empty Nest Moms
See also the following books on the subject of the empty nest:
- It’s Your Time Now: What will you do with it?,
by Mary Guarino.
- The Empty Nest: 31 parents tell the truth about relationships, love,
and freedom after the kids fly the coop, edited by Karen Stabiner.
This is a wonderful collection of famous and not-so-famous people’s stories of their
empty-nest experiences.
- Chicken Soup for the Soul — Empty Nesters: 101 stories about surviving
and thriving when the kids leave home, by Jack Canfield, Mark Hansen,
Carol Rhem, & Patricia Evans.
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