Laura C. Schlessinger writes relationship and family self-help built around responsibility, marriage, parenting and personal conduct. The Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives and its companion volume for men organise advice around recurring relationship choices, dependency and judgement. The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands focuses on marital behaviour and conventional gender roles, while Bad Childhood—Good Life argues that adults can change patterns learned in difficult families rather than treating the past as destiny. Schlessinger's style is direct, prescriptive and often socially conservative, with anecdotes and rules taking precedence over academic psychological research. Schlessinger's books are most often shelved under relationship self-help, marriage advice, parenting and behaviour change. Read more Less