A mother who seeks to meet her child's emotional and physical needs, but reduces her adaptation to those needs over time so as to allow for the child's development of mature selfhood.
Origin
1950s.
Definition of good-enough mother in US English:
good-enough mother
noun
Psychology
A mother who seeks to meet her child's emotional and physical needs, but reduces her adaptation to those needs over time so as to allow for the child's development of mature selfhood.