Show Shoplifting Daughter Dear Margaret I married recently for a second time after having no children of my now have a teenage stepdaughter who lives with was supposed to live with her but one dav the mother just took off and hasn't been heard from since THE GIRL is very generally well-behaved good but lately she has been a great source of embarrassment to She has been caught shoplifting twice in two different we were able to bail her out both I can't for the life of me understand why she would do something like She has more clothes than she needs and a regular allowance to meet all her THINGS she took articles of clothing she wouldn't wear They were cheap and sleazy-looking When we asked her why she did she said she just felt a powerfully strong impulse to take We're frankly bewildered about how to deal with My husband has a very responsible job and any kind of scandal could hurt him We're worried about what kind of trouble the girl might get into We just don't know where to Shoplifting is a crime cannot but there are varying motives for it- In some it may be out-and-out In it may be a response to some deep sense of emotional IT'S AS if the individual feels although not on a conscious level that he or she should take something from the outside world that otherwise was not not the specific object that is important to the but rather the act of taking something to make up in some way for what he feels he's not Your stepdaughter's shoplifting may be related to Although she's well-behaved on the the divorce of her parents and her subsequent abandonment by her mother might very well have produced such If her compulsion to shoplift springs from psychological it might be possible to keep it from If there's a mental health association in your why not check with the people there about possible counseling and treatment for your troubled Dear Margaret My doctor says I may have to have a I'm 41 years Will this mean I'll have an Dear J. S. There's lots of confusion about which is an operation in which the or is Your doctor can tell you that after you won't have nor can you And since the uterus does not produce female hormones of taking it out will not hasten the change of You'll go through menopause whenever your ovaries would normally show IF your doctor determines your ovaries must be removed to prevent further then you will have what is called a Many women experience hot flushes and other symptoms of estrogen deficiency after such an but just like in these symptoms may be eased with hormones prescribed by your And be reassured that hysterectomy will not make you any less attractive or less Dear Margaret I am 54 years old and haven't been in the for 20 I'm a little tired of playing bridge and doing only volunteer work I'd like to try something I think about going back to but am afraid I'd never make Dear Margaret I'm but look only I keep active by working part-time the I'm a pianist-organist and a but still want fun before I leave this I feel great I'm active in community belong to a number of write poetry and song I read everything I can hold of and always try to keep UP world af-f rs |