This book made me extremely angry. It should be titled "How to Screw Up Your Kids." Her children were hurt deeply by her bad decisions over and over again, and instead of focusing on them, she continually sent them away - to boarding school, to an unwed mother's home and then to another counselor's home, to their travelling father, to their cousin's. She took herself away for "healing time" to her parents', to Florida, to the ocean, to visit friends, and all through it her attitude was "poor me, look at my suffering." She took no responsibility for her kids' suffering, just said that they made their own bad decisions. She is completely self-centered and my heart was weeping for her children.