Is it possible for parents to only feel anger towards their children? Can excessive love for a child essentially be a projection of our flaws? Can a mother feel no love for her daughter? Or even worse, feel hatred?

Do we, in the end, raise our children in exactly the same way that our parents raised us, even if we claim to disagree with that approach? Why can't we rid ourselves of the 'bonds' in which our parents have ensnared us?

We abuse our children because we hide within us an abused child; we want our son and daughter to be excellent and top of their class at all costs because that’s the compulsion our own parents condemned us to.

We are authoritarian because fundamentally, we hide a very insecure character that has suffered authoritarian behavior from its parents in the past...

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]