Amen. I grew up in the days of "Tough Love." It destroyed the family. This many years later and there is still no chance of re-connection. That was a total fa

Amen. I grew up in the days of "Tough Love." It destroyed the family. This many years later and there is still no chance of re-connection. That was a total failure of a program. And they lacked competing theories on raising "problematic" children that were, say, less hostile than Tough Love. Ruined families are not so rare. What is rare is treatment for those who are in the "after" group. That's just one example of so many.