Almost every woman gets influenced to be an ideal woman by her own mother, who acts as a role model for her. But sometimes, it happens that girls have to grow without the sheltered protection and benign influence of a mother. This might be either due to the fact that the parents were separated or because the mother was dead. The book is replete with suggestions that a motherless child will be definitely be facing a lot of difficulties relating to her own children. The book touches your heart and helps you to discover the complete woman in you. The book shaped up on the basis of the author's personal experiences and a lot of research work and interviews with many mothers as well as daughters.
Overall, this book is a wonderful as well as a helpful reading. Mothering Without a Map makes you realize that there are no set or defined rules of coping up with the complexities of mothering.



