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Abstract

A group of addiction research workers from Georgia USA have laid claim to copyright of this term before either you could stake a claim. They tell that in their study parents were assessed on degree of problematic parental role functioning. Parentification, a state somewhat akin to beatification. You are a parent and therefore a wonderful person,on whom we will heap adulation and mother's/father's day cards till kingdom come. Parentification, a rampant boastfulness relating to your children's intellectual and sporting prowess. The stigmata of this condition include the habit of ever so casually, but repeatedly, dropping into the conversation news of your kids' ever more glittering prizes. Parentification is a neologism too far. Parentification, poor creature, you are being parentifled by the constant demands of your children. The term implies being eaten alive by the demands put on you, a type of victimisation. Parentification, according to the author, is a neologism too far but gobbledegook, that's an essential word in every iguana's vocabulary.