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Identity is central to how one perceives the world and how one is perceived. There is no more meaningful life event nor more significant an identity crisis that an individual goes through as a human being than to become a parent. However, unlike other identities that an individual acquires over the course of life, this is an identity that continues to transition a child is growing and developing. Galinsky (1987) created a thought-provoking stage approach to describe parental development. This paper makes use of this model to trace the concurrent paths of parental identity and children’s growth and development with a narrative of my own experience as a parent.
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Fracasso, M.P. (2017). The Concurrent Paths of Parental Identity and Child Development. In: Sinnott, J. (eds) Identity Flexibility During Adulthood. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55658-1_9
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