Mother Daughter Relationships Research Paper

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Introduction This paper will examine mother daughter relationships impact the daughter’s body image and self-esteem. This is a very controversial topic that takes place a lot in the media. It relates closely to self and relation theory being that girls are then dissatisfied with their bodies because of the pressure from their mothers and/or the media. There are many studies done on the negative effects of mother daughter relationships. There are findings that result from these studies, one of them being: girls in the United States and in Australia being unhappy with the way they look. Two questions being raised in this paper are: how do mother daughter relationships impact body image and self-esteem and how the author’s own mother daughter

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