Q: I am writing from Toronto. I am very worried about my nephew who will be sponsored to Canada with his mother from China. He has been a trouble maker since he was born. Now he is 11 years old and his situation has become worse. His parents divorced when he was 3 years old. [...]

Q: I am 50+ years old and as a child I was put into an orphanage — but the thing is, I don’t remember this. They told me I was 7 years old at the time. I have also blocked out the life I had before I went there. I don’t have a clue what [...]

Q: My son is a very strange young boy. He becomes obsessed with things easily. He also has an extremely active imagination which has recently turned into a bad thing. Lately he has been saying that I treat him awfully, which is not true at all. To ‘get back at me’ he burned one sock [...]

Q: I’m 58 and my sister is 56. Our mother has bought us underwear for Christmas for years — and at our age, we find it bizarre. We don’t have a good relationship with her either. Is there some kind of psychological reason why she would do this? A: Yes, buying you underwear for Christmas [...]

Q: Our situation is probably what you hear all the time. We are supporting our 20-year old daughter in a private college. We are paying for her car insurance and we have paid for her car also. All we ask of her is good grades, make good choices in friends, boyfriends, and life in general [...]

Q: I need advice on how to handle my mother. My husband and I are having financial difficulties and had to borrow money from my parents. I thanked my mother. That was not good enough. She was upset and called my husband an “ungrateful @?!&hole” the day before I was to appear in court to [...]

Q: I have a 19-year-old daughter who lies about everything and steals from us. She has a boyfriend that is not very nice. Where do we begin with her? Her boyfriend is leaving for boot camp is just a few days. A: When we have a young adult who lies and steals from the family, [...]