Laura Schlessinger

Laura Catherine Schlessinger is an American talk radio host, socially conservative commentator and author. Her radio program consists mainly of her responses to callers requests for personal advice and has occasionally featured her short monologues on social and political topics. Her website says that her show preaches, teaches, and nags about morals, values and ethics.

Schlessinger was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Brooklyn and on Long Island. Her parents were Monroe Monty Schlessinger, a civil engineer, and Yolanda Schlessinger, an Italian Catholic war bride. Schlessinger has said her father was charming and her mother beautiful as a young woman. She has a sister, Cindy, who isyears her junior. Schlessinger has described her childhood environment as unloving and unpleasant, and her family as dysfunctional. She has ascribed some of the difficulty to extended family rejection of her parents mixed faith JewishCatholic marriage. Schlessinger said her father was petty, insensitive, mean, thoughtless, demeaning and downright unloving. She described her mother as a person with pathological pride, who was never grateful, who would always find something to criticize, and who constantly expressed disdain for men, sex and love. She credited her father with giving her the drive to succeed.

Source: Wikipedia