Bad Childhood

Meredith's parents lost custody of her many years ago and she doesn't appreciate her grandfather's attempts to reunite her with her bio-mom.

Bad Childhood

Rachel is finding it hard to understand how her parents could not only forgive the man who molested her brothers but continue a friendship with him.

Bad Childhood

Is there anything Robert can do today to help erase the bad memories of his childhood?

Bad Childhood

13-year-old Riley's chaotic home life is taking a toll on her character. She has started stealing and generally becoming a type of person she doesn't want to be.

Bad Childhood

I heard you take a call from a 12-year-old girl whose divorced (and absent) father was concerned she wasn’t calling him every day. After the girl said she loved her father but was angry at...

Bad Childhood

My mother passed away unexpectedly, and I sank into a deep depression. I broke down, and told my husband how growing up, my brother was my mom’s favorite, and although I was a “daddy’s...

Bad Childhood

The older she gets, the more Erika wishes she had a better relationship with her mother.

Bad Childhood

Joann wonders if her current problems stem from the attempted molestation she experienced as a child.

Bad Childhood

I am the daughter of a teenage single mom. My father and mother were never really together after I was born, and my mom remarried twice. The last marriage “took,” because she found a man...