Empty Nest, Full Life

The silence of an empty house is often portrayed as the sound of obsolescence, a dreaded end to a parent's purpose. But what if this cultural narrative is a statistical illusion? This journalistic investigation dismantles the pervasive myth of the "e;Empty Nest Syndrome,"e; tracing its origins to a 1914 congressional resolution that inadvertently created the "e;Martyr-Mother Myth."e;Author James H...