My ideas about family dysfunctionality concur with a number of modern books whose titles alone vividly capture the collapse of the institution of parenting in our culture: Prisoners of Childhood, Betrayal of Innocence, The Secret Everyone Knows, Hearts That We Broke Long Ago, Soul Murder: Persecution in the Family, After The Tears: Reclaiming the Personal Losses of Childhood, Getting Divorced From Mom And Dad , Healing The Shame That Binds You, and My Name Is Chellis, I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization
