Published: Irish Examiner
Author: Áilín Quinlan
Expert Opinion: Dr. Malie Coyne
They f*** you up, your mum and dad/They may not mean to, but they do/ They fill you with the faults they had/And add some extra, just for you.
THIS extract from the famous Philip Larkin poem is what the controversial new website, myhorridparent.com, is about.
However, unlike the poem, the website also offers hope and help to the children of “horrid” parents. It provides different techniques for dealing with toxic mums and dads, whose faults, it emphasises, are most definitely not caused by their offspring.