Help! My Parents Are Out of Control!
HELP! MY PARENTS ARE OUT OF CONTROL!
TEEN VOGUE
OCTOBER 2005 ON HOLD UNTIL ??
BY JULIA ALLISON
“My dad was a tragic figure – smart, talented, but addicted to both alcohol and gambling,” says Joan Bauer, who struggled as a teenager growing up with an out of control parent. “He would be missing for a few weeks and then come back home. He’d be just waking up when I came home from school, sitting at the kitchen table in his bathrobe, hung-over. When I was older he would call me late at night drunk and put one of his girlfriends on the phone. He eventually committed suicide.”
Although an extreme example, Bauer’s father is a quintessential Out of Control Parent.
TEEN VOGUE
BY JULIA ALLISON
“My dad was a tragic figure – smart, talented, but addicted to both alcohol and gambling,” says Joan Bauer, who struggled as a teenager growing up with an out of control parent. “He would be missing for a few weeks and then come back home. He’d be just waking up when I came home from school, sitting at the kitchen table in his bathrobe, hung-over. When I was older he would call me late at night drunk and put one of his girlfriends on the phone. He eventually committed suicide.”
Although an extreme example, Bauer’s father is a quintessential Out of Control Parent.