Hanging Out with Mom Is Cool Again
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iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Moms and their adult daughters are getting along better than ever — at least in the United Kingdom.
A survey by the market research company Usurv of 1,000 people suggests that many women are happy to bring their mothers to social events and connect with them on social media.
For instance, 80 percent of daughters have dined with their moms at restaurants while two-thirds have gone shopping or taken vacations together. Fewer have brought their mothers to concerts or gone clubbing.
Only 13 percent have not shared in any of those activities with their mothers.
Meanwhile, 40 percent of respondents said they are connected with their moms on Facebook.
Dr. Terri Apter, a psychologist at Newnham College, Cambridge explains, “Mothers today feel they have much more in common with their daughters than they had with their mothers.” In fact, Apter says today’s moms don’t look all that much different from their daughters.
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