Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents

Writing from firsthand experience, Allison Bottke identifies the lies that kept her, and ultimately her son, in bondage-and how she overcame them. Additional real-life stories from other parents appear throughout the text.


A tough-love guide to coping with dysfunctional adult children, Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children will empower families by offering hope and healing through S.A.N.I.T.Y.-a six-step program to help parents regain control in their homes and in their lives.

• S = STOP Enabling, STOP Blaming Yourself, and STOP the Flow of Money


• A = Assemble a Support Group


• N = Nip Excuses in the Bud


• I = Implement Rules/Boundaries


• T = Trust Your Instincts


• Y = Yield Everything to God