Avoiding Mommie Dearest: How to raise a healthy, happy daughter when your own relationship with your mother was less than ideal? [more inside]
posted by thenewbrunette on Aug 24, 2009 - 20 answers

Novels about women and their crazy moms? [more inside]
posted by It ain't over yet on Oct 17, 2008 - 33 answers

Parents splitting up after 35 years -- maybe temporarily, but I'm betting on the long-term. They're both crazy, but my mom is C-R-A-Z-Y, and her poisonous attitude has now doomed this relationship for good. Our own relationship has always been strained, but how do I even begin to relate to her now? [more inside]
posted by Madamina on Oct 8, 2008 - 20 answers

How to help a parent and her adult children cope with an assault that happened 40 years ago? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Aug 17, 2008 - 8 answers