From the Introduction:
"A guilty parent? Who, me?
"Yes. Me. You, too, if you’ve got kids and your lungs are moving in and out here in the eighties.
"Is it remotely possible that any other parents in any other age have had the opportunity to feel as guilty in as many ways as we have?
"This book is for guilty parents everywhere who can still manage to look in the mirror and realize they’re only human – and living in tricky, tricky times."