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Book Review of Toxic Parents : Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life

Toxic Parents : Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
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In this self-help guide, Susan Forward, Ph.D., draws on case histories and the real-life voices of adult children of toxic parents to help you free yourself from the frustrating patters of your relationship with your parents--and discover a new world of self-confidence, inner strength and emotional independence.

Who are toxic parents?
Inadequate Parents
The Controllers
The Alcoholics
The Verbal Abusers
The Physical Abusers
The Sexual Abusers

You are not to blame for what happened to you as a child--but you can do something about it now!