parental deprivation

A sixteen-year-old girl in 1980s British Columbia, abandoned by her father, develops an obsession with another girl, the street-smart Justine, and enters a chaotic underworld of prostitution, drugs, and violence.

Examines the negative impact absentee parenting is having on children in the twenty-first century, discussing how lack of parental presence, whether due to divorce, death, or work, is leading to a rise in psychiatric problems, obesity, school violence, and other behavioral problems.