Problem: Dr. Laura is the biggest hypocrite at all. She argues other women should be stay-at-home moms — when she was never a stay-at-home mom. She argues that men should be the family breadwinner — when she’s always been her family’s main breadwinner. She excoriates divorce — and she’s divorced and started dating her current husband while he was still a married man. She abhors premarital sex — while having nude photos of herself on the web, taken by an ex-boyfriend. She tells people to honor their parents — while she cut all ties with her mother, who died alone in an apartment and whose body wasn’t discovered for several months after her death.
She’s a prime example of “do as I say, not as I do,” and has made scads of money off of yelling at people to act in ways she doesn’t. Dr. Laura pretty much makes me sick.
I know much, if not all, of what you mentioned happened many decades ago- before her show- and I know she used much of it as example of “what not to do”. I think we’ve all done things we wish we hadn’t and are not proud of. Despite that, does that make what she is saying wrong? Aren’t the words she speaks still true, despite her past?
She has addressed the issue of her mother. Her mother appeared to be mentallly ill and cut off contact with her.
I’ve heard stories like hers many times. I read an article recently about a man with a homeless brother. The brother was clearly mentally ill, but simply refused to be helped, and the law is little help on this point.
I personally knew of a woman who in her seventies cut off all contact with her children and has never met one grandchild. Twenty years ago, she was one of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet.
It’s easy to point fingers, but ultimately, people can’t control their relatives.