Improving Father-Daughter Relationships: A Guide for Women and Their Dads

This engaging, no-nonsense book by father-daughter relationships expert, Dr. Linda Nielsen, offers a step-by-step guide for fathers and daughters to build a more comfortable and meaningful relationship and resolve issues still hanging over them from the past.

With amusing and poignant true stories and research-based advice, Nielsen shows us how to get to the root of problems that strain relationships from late adolescence throughout a daughter’s adult life. The book explores problems arising from conflicts over money, the daughter’s lifestyle and choices in her romantic relationships, her parents’ divorce, tense situations during her college years, and her father’s aging and death. With entertaining, eye-opening quizzes, she introduces research that makes readers re-examine their own beliefs and biases that limit or complicate their father-daughter relationship.

Improving Father-Daughter Relationships: A Guide for Women and Their Dads is essential reading and a powerful resource for adult daughters and their fathers, as well as for their families and therapists.

Linda Nielsen, Ed.D., is a professor in the Education Department at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. A member of the faculty for 52 years, she is a nationally recognized researcher and expert on father-daughter relationships. Her work has appeared in many forums, including a PBS documentary, National Public Radio, CNN, Time, Newsweek, Oprah, Forbes, The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, New York Times & the Washington Post. For more than three decades, she has taught the only college course in the country exclusively devoted to father-daughter relationships. In 2023 she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Research Award by the National Parenting Organization for the worldwide impact of her work on shared parenting after divorce and father-daughter relationships.