Acknowledgments

We are grateful to friends and colleagues who read the manuscript and contributed suggestions and criticism. Special thanks to Gerald Gross, for reading some of the manuscript and for his helpful suggestions; to Claudia Gabel, our editor, whose patience and helpful suggestions have made the publishing process so much easier and more pleasant; to Betsy Rapoport, who saw the benefit of reissuing this book; to Theodore Cohn, for his patience, his help, and his valuable editorial comments; to our children and their children, who helped us appreciate the importance of caring communication; to Nancy Goddard, who has been a model of compassionate parenting; to Emily, Andy, and Sara, who have taught us priceless lessons. And, most of all, to the parents who shared with us their feelings and experience, we acknowledge our greatest debt.

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