Throughout the book she relates her year
of strung - together
dysfunctional relationships, revealing her pseudo-deep thoughts as she sleeps naked beside a series
of men, has the «hottest, most X-rated nonsex» ever, and returns night after night to a
variety of men's apartments.
A review
of twenty studies on the adult lives
of antisocial adolescent girls found higher mortality rates, a
variety of psychiatric problems,
dysfunctional and violent
relationships, poor educational achievement, and less stable work histories than among non-delinquent girls.23 Chronic problem behavior during childhood has been linked with alcohol and drug abuse in adulthood, as well as with other mental health problems and disorders, such as emotional disturbance and depression.24 David Hawkins, Richard Catalano, and Janet Miller have shown a similar link between conduct disorder among girls and adult substance abuse.25 Terrie Moffitt and several colleagues found that girls diagnosed with conduct disorder were more likely as adults to suffer from a wide
variety of problems than girls without such a diagnosis.26 Among the problems were poorer physical health and more symptoms
of mental illness, reliance on social assistance, and victimization by, as well as violence toward, partners.
A
variety of mechanisms have been postulated as being responsible for intergenerational continuity
of depression (Garber and Flynn 2001) such as genetic predisposition (Todd et al. 1993), emotional unavailability
of the caregiver (Simons et al. 2002), and impairments in parenting and
dysfunctional family
relationships (e.g. Cummigs and Davies 1994; Downey and Coyne 1990; Fergusson et al. 1994; Garber and Flynn 2001; Olsson et al. 1999; Rutter 2000).