Episode 1: Foundational Concepts for the Empty Nest Stage

Where did the idea of an “empty nest” come from? Is this a difficult stage for moms or the best time of our lives? We talk about what both some popular and some scholarly literature says about this stage.

Resources

“The ‘Empty Nest’: A Transition within Motherhood,” by Donald Spence and Thomas Lonner. The Family Coordinator 20(4), pp. 369-375, 1971. https://www.jstor.org/stable/582168

Lost in the Middle: Midlife and the Grace of God, by Paul Tripp, 2004.

Recommendations

Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather. Global Publishers, 2024.

Understood Betsy, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Ayvx, 1996.