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Why Mommy Hits Daddy: Kids Guide To Understanding Alcoholism
Paperback
Series: Rejected Children's Books (Funny Books for Adults), Book 16
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 9 2020
Pages: 26
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.07 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Daddy drinks too much. That's his thing. Mommy has her own thing, which is the hitting, and the hitting has a source, and the source is the drinking... mommy's, in this case, because the problem travels in multiple directions and this book documents the other direction from its companion volume. The dynamic is the same. The gender of the drinker has changed. The guide is equally honest about both versions because the household experience of both versions deserves equal documentation. Mommy drinks. The correlation between the drinking and the hitting has been documented. The cartoon art is equally cheerful in both volumes. The subject matter is equally serious in both.
This adult parody book is the companion to Why Daddy Hits Mommy, completing a two-volume educational set about alcoholism and its household expressions that no school curriculum has produced in illustrated form. The series establishes equal coverage. The subject matter is real in both directions. The dark humor operates the same way in both volumes: through the gap between the cheerful format and the honest subject matter, and through the recognition that names the thing while the illustrated art holds the distance.
This Book IS For:- Adults who grew up with a mommy-drinks version of this situation and find the parallel documentation validating
- Fans of dark comedy that treats both versions of a dynamic with equal honesty rather than defaulting to one direction
- Anyone who believes the illustrated parody format should be as egalitarian in its documentation as the underlying situation was
- Collectors of the companion volume who want both sides of the story in illustrated form on their shelf
- People who feel that equal documentation is less important than documenting the statistically more common version
- Readers who need this specific volume to be different in tone or approach from the companion, which it isn't
- Anyone for whom this subject matter is currently active and the humor is not yet part of their available toolkit
- People who read one volume and found it sufficient and are confident the other direction is covered by implication
- Gifts paired with the companion volume for the complete household alcoholism documentation experience
- White elephant exchanges among people who have encountered both volumes and appreciate the completeness of the set
- Gag gifts for anyone whose situation was specifically this direction and who appreciates the specific coverage
- Support contexts where dark humor about alcoholism is part of the shared language and equal representation matters
The companion volume documented one direction. This volume documents the other. The series is now complete. The completeness matters because the experience being documented exists in both directions, and illustrated parody that only covers one version would be documenting half a reality with the confidence of a full one. This book is the other half. The alcoholism has moved. The guide has followed. The cartoon art remains equally cheerful. The subject matter remains equally real.
Buy it with the companion. Buy it alone if this is the specific direction that applies. Buy it for someone who grew up with the mommy-drinks version and has never seen their specific experience documented in illustrated form. The series covers both. The coverage is equal. The distance required for the humor is the same. Both versions happened in real households. Both versions are now in illustrated cartoon books. That is, at minimum, more documentation than both versions had before these books existed.
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