#family-dysfunction

#family-dysfunction

In case you forgot, you can be in your 50s and your parents can still fuck you up real good. The youths don't have a lock on that, okay? It's a shame that Alex and Cory have such a distaste for one another at the moment because both of their parents are psychotic in their own special ways, but psychotic nonetheless, and those two would have a lot to share after the events of "The Parent Trap."

He'd been shooting large-format prints of lakes in Ontario, he explains, and was trying to capture the mist that rises off their mirrored surface at dawn. "It was really the fog that interested me-much more than the lakes," he says. "The right combination of fog and morning light and the lake reflecting it all was somehow very spooky and serene at the same time."

In dysfunctional or abusive families, fixed family roles sustain dysfunction, allowing those with power to externalize blame onto a scapegoat, often a black sheep.