Parent-child relationships have always been critical and charged. Nowadays, things have dangerously worsened. While old perceptions about these relationships were challenged and revised without sufficient study and knowledge, new perceptions are being applied that have not been previously tested and are proving to be inadequate. These new prevailing perceptions have often been more destructive than the old ones. The result is that parents and children are "feeling in the dark" in the midst of this confusion.

The authors of this book attempt to offer a guiding light to parents and children who are feeling in the dark. They do so with reverence, drawing on a rich reference to paternal wisdom and tradition, as well as modern psychology, and with the awareness that similar well-intentioned efforts have evolved into traps that have further complicated the steps of those feeling in the dark...