Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #623330 in Books
• Published on: 1996-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback

Customer Reviews

1st book that focuses on the 12 Steps for Adult Children
The 12 Steps for Adult Children is a unique tool for the millions of adults who suffer the effects of having grown up in a dysfunctional environment.

Children raised in addictive & other dysfunctional families rarely develop a sense of personal security or genuine feelings of self-worth. Seldom feeling safe & loved as children, they are handicapped in their ability to feel whole or to give & receive love as adults.

Based upon the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, this book offers a specific format for moving from isolation & denial to acceptance & competence in dealing with feelings of anger, guilt, fear & despair. By releasing the past & opening up to the present, individuals begin to develop confidence in the realization that they are valuable & worthwhile persons.

atheists look elsewhere
This book I was incredibly dissapointed by. It starts off with a very good insight into the problems adult children experience due to problematic childhood family lives, and I was generally quite impressed by it up until step number 3. This reads "step 3: made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God".

Oh dear. I consider myself to be an evolved being and although I respect other peoples beliefs towards supernatural forces I am not personally a believer. Step 5,6,7,8,9 and 11 also have 'God' in the title and most of the steps involve a belief in God as a pre-requisite to achieving them (the steps).

For me as an atheist it made this book pretty useless. I give credit to the authors for their initial insights and their intentions to write this book to help other adult children, but for me personally I'm looking for solutions to problems I experience, not a book to tell me that some God I don't beleive in will sort things out for me if I follow a few steps.

If you beleive in 'God' then you would probably find this book quite useful, if not then apart from insights into adult children I can't see this book being any use to you at all.

If you are looking at this book for yourself then I wish you all the best for getting over your problems.

David Clark