Now she's leaving home, and that symbiotic mother-child relationship must end.

Background: The mother-child relationship is extremely important, and for mothers experiencing incarceration, this relationship has unique challenges.

Conclusions: Results support attachment theories concerning parasympathetic response to stress and the role of the mother-child relationship in physiological regulation.

Despite its too-neat resolution and flat visual style, "Fly Away" is both tough and subtle in depicting the particular intensity of this mother-child relationship.

Mother-child relationship quality, in turn, was associated positively with youth social competence at age 15.