Letters to the Editor
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Genes or Environment?
I don't know if the books delve into this (neither of the interviews that I have seen does), but do the parents explore the possibility that their own narcissistic behavior was the key trigger for Nic's drug life? Affairs have a way of breaking up families and are generally based on lies. (Who tells their spouse about their intention to sleep around?)Also, trying to raise a child by shuttling him back and forth seems rather selfish. And how could Nic feel like anything but an inconvenience as his parents/stepparents go on to breed their next families? In this child's reality was a father he couldn't trust who probably appeared more interested in his new offspring; no wonder a chemically altered reality was so alluring. I know this sounds harsher than I mean it to, but I hate to see parents jump to saying their children's problems are genetic when the environment created by the parents may be the larger factor.