It signals mutual closeness and disclosure between the friends as they discuss their unsatisfactory parents and their need for liberation.
It tells Nancy's story, complete with a full description of her "unsatisfactory parents" and unhappy childhood, and an account of her life after she left Lawrence.
To translate: "satisfactory" will mean for most parents "unsatisfactory" and "inadequate" will mean "dire".
And yet, I am unaware of any evidence anywhere that suggests that the simple act of having sex -- even the dirty kinky best kind -- outside the bonds of matrimony absolutely must result in poor work performance, terrible parenting and unsatisfactory commitment to one's constituents.
Five studies, based on the three high-risk cohorts, consistently demonstrated increased risk for SSD in association with poor child-parent relationships (including "unsatisfactory" or "poor" relationships with a parent, family instability, paternal or maternal conflict, communication deviance, and negative affective style), with medium to large effect sizes [ 65, 105– 105].
The first German Child and Parent versions were tested in n = 44 children and their parents, but showed unsatisfactory psychometric properties (Wenninger, personal communication).
Is the mother who sends a child to school with a Pop-Tart in hand a "needs improvement" parent or an "unsatisfactory" one?
Her two brothers, both also in California, were relatively uninvolved, but she plunged into the breach as daughters will do, forming a triangulated relationship with her struggling parents as complicated and unsatisfactory as any other threesome.
A Spanish research calls attention to the fact that almost half of the youth between ages 18 and 29 describe communication with their parents on sexual matters as inexistent (25.9%) and unsatisfactory (20.6%).
