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How long does it take to read Toxic Parents?

Susan Forward

Toxic Parents by Susan Forward takes about 5 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 59 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1988. 326 pages, about 89,650 words.

12 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 9 hours 58 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 59 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 44 minutes

The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

When you were a child...Did your parents tell you were bad or worthless?Did your parents use physical pain to discipline you?Did you have to take care of your parents because of their problems?Were you frightened of your parents?Did your parents do anything to you that had to be kept secret?Now that you are an adult...Do your parents still treat you as if you were a child?Do you have intense emotional or physical reactions after spending time with your parents?Do your parents control you with threats or guilt?Do they manipulate you with money?Do you feel that no matter what you do, it's never good enough for your parents?In this remarkable self-help guide, Dr. Susan Forward drawn on case histories and the real-life voices of adult children of toxic parents to help you free yourself from the frustrating patterns of your relationship with your parents -- and discover an exciting new world of self-confidence, inner strength, and emotional independence.From the Paperback edition.

Subjects: Familias problemáticas, Child abuse, Codependency, Codependencia (Psicología), Problem families, Abusive parents

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