Tuesday, April 5, 2011

The dialogue between mothers and daughters is superficial, they speak little, and only shopping

The idyllic relations are just those described in the scripts of the films. The reality is very different, especially when describing relationships that are problematic since the dawn of time, such as between parents and children and, in particular, that between mothers and daughters. The family revolves around different balances, but rest assured that the dialogue between mother and daughter is not among those major strand.

If we had not convinced him to detect even the data collected by Alessandra Graziottin, director of the Center of Gynecology and Sexology in Milan's San Raffaele Resnati. Mothers and daughters do not speak Italian with each other. The image already? More than the silence between mothers and daughters in Italy we speak mainly of petty arguments and superficial as clothing, the look, the hairdresser, cosmetics, fitness centers and, more generally, the look and shopping.

The study interviewed on a representative sample of 1566 Italian women and the data reflect that damage. While talking about issues that are important in the family context, Dr. Graziottin but notes that if the dialogue has other arguments, the only existing become hollow and useless. Among the topics spoken between mother and daughter there is also love, with particular reference to the sphere of romantic and erotic, but contraception is still a taboo.

"Only 40% of girls born to mothers from 85 onwards - said the expert - talk about contraception with their daughters. Moreover, the quality of dialogue on important issues such as religion, cinema, theater, music, culture or politics, there is very little, while the topics discussed are related to the sphere of individual well-being and the image looks.

Over time, the dialogue between mother and daughter has changed, but, given the data, has decreased the quality of what you say. "Health is a topic dear to women - continues Graziottin - but it comes too little about contraception, which is why 55% of the morning-after pills are consumed in the range of 14-20years." Sex is taboo in Italian families and this unfortunately does not change for 50 years now.

We do not know what is worse, if you do not speak or speak only of lighter topics like the clothes you wear or who you would like to buy, cut or color hair, makeup and what is right or not. Perhaps, that does not change is the embarrassment of addressing certain issues, precisely because it is handed down from mother to daughter for generations and it is so: if our mother never talked to us about certain things and we have not ever faced in this regard difficult to find a way to deal with then the conversation with our daughters.

Times change and should change the relationship between mother and daughter, preferring a deeper confidence that would eliminate many dilemmas and mistakes.

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