PAGES Pod- Volume XXIII : Adult Children

We grow up, but do we ever stop being our parents’ kids? In this episode, we unpack what it really means to be an "adult child." How does this shape the dynamic between parents and their grown children? Do our parents ever truly see us as adults, or are we forever frozen in time as “their baby”? And what does it mean for us—do we ever fully see them beyond their role as parents?

Join us as we dig into these questions and more, exploring the messy, shifting relationships between parents and their grown children. Tune in, reflect, and maybe even rethink the way you see your own family ties.

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A Few Texts Mentioned this Episode:

• Freedom as a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
• Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Abstracted: Fictive Kinships in Black Extended Families 

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Chapters

• 0:20 Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
• 0:55 Titles Appearing in this Episode
• 1:33 Introduction
• 3:09 What are Adult Children?
• 13:54 Does the concept of 'children' imply anything about their position as a knower?
• 23:33 An excerpt from Between the World and Me
• 29:54 Can Black children have 'childhoods'?
• 34:37 Where are you at in your process of becoming an Adult Child?
• 44:20 Do parents have duties to get to know their 'children' as 'adults'?
• 48:56 Where do elders fit in this picture?
• 1:04:08 Outro