Attitudes of Mid-Life Mothers Toward Their Daughters\u27 Adolescence

This paper discusses the ways in which mid-life mothers reflected their attitudes toward the emerging womanhood of their adolescent daughters through art work. It concerns natural and normal developmental stresses which occur as mothers and daughters pass through difficult life stages somewhat simultaneously. A non-clinical group of four mothers between 38 and 44-years old with daughters between 14 and 17-years old responded to five specifically designed drawing tasks derived from literature on mid-life and mothers and daughters. Information was elicited regarding each mother\u27s relationship to her own mother, the negotiation of her own adolescence, and her present self-concept. Discussion of each mother\u27s idiosyncratic responses are included

A perfect impasse? Cuba’s move towards the market and the U.S. move towards Cuba

This article firstly analyses the internal economic trajectory of the Cuban economic reforms and evaluates their effectiveness in delivering the extensive and intensive development needed to resolve Cuba’s structural and economic imbalances. It concludes that without the lifting of the U.S. economic sanctions, success will at best be only partial, with serious implications for long-term stability. The article then evaluates the reasons for the U.S. economic sanctions against Cuba and argues that while the embargo policy might have failed to topple the Cuban communist regime, it has served other, largely unacknowledged, purposes that are important in understanding why the policy has persisted. The article concludes by suggesting that the U.S. is not likely to jettison the sanctions regime while Cuba remains a single party, state led economic system. At the same time, Cuba is not likely to jettison its single party system while the sanctions remain