title: Letting Go: A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years, Third Edition
author: Karen Levin Coburn
description: <i>Letting Go</i> is about what it feels like for parents when their kids go off to college. Karen Levin Coburn and Madge Lawrence Treeger provide a compassionate approach, practical information, and advice about the physical and emotional processes of letting go. They discuss the college-age child's search for identity, independence, and intimacy; give a succinct and accurate description of how college life has changed over the decades; and provide a year-by-year breakdown of what to expect. Plus, you can read about typical and not-so-typical problems including date rape, crime, eating disorders, drug and alcohol use, and sexual issues. Of special note is the focus on orientation and the freshman year, including the disorientation parents feel once the drop-off has been made.
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  Why Go to College?
  
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  # Why Go to College?
  
  
  ### Alice Freeman Palmer
  
  
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  This Etext prepared by: Stephanie L. Johnson (Wellesley '91)
  
  
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  WHY GO TO COLLEGE? an Address
  
  
  
  
  
  BY ALICE FREEMAN PALMER
  
  
  Formerly President of Wellesley College
  
  
  To a largely increasing number of young girls college doors are
  
  
  opening every year. Every year adds to the number of men who feel as
  
  
  a friend of mine, a successful lawyer in a great city, felt when in
  
  
  talking of the future of his four little children he said, "For the
  
  
  two boys it is not so serious, but I lie down at night afraid to die
  
  
  and leave my daughters only a bank account." Year by year, too, the
  
  
  experiences of life are teaching mothers that happiness does not
  
  
  necessarily come to their daughters when accounts are large and banks
  
  
  are sound, but that on the