mothers and daughters

After she is kidnapped from the exclusive boarding school she attends, heiress Marnie Skyedottir must rethink her idealized relationship with her mother, her own sense of who she is, and her relationships with others.

Living with their mother who earns money as a prostitute, two sisters take care of each other and when the older one attempts suicide, the younger one tries to uncover the reason.

Plagued with her mother's bad judgment in choosing boyfriends, fifteen-year-old Danielle is in denial about her boyfriend Reid, but when her best friend Ashley convinces Danielle to go on a road trip away from the mess of her life Danielle finds herself driving across Michigan in a stolen car.

Tamika thinks life can't get much worse after her boyfriend dumps her, her best friend moves away, and her mother drags her to her grandmother's house for vacation, but when her mother starts hanging out with her old friends, Tamika is forced to take on the adult role in her family.

Afraid that she will have no where to go when her welfare checks are stopped, nineteen-year-old high school dropout Aisha tries to figure out how she can support herself and her two young children in New York City.

When she and her mother move to an apartment in New York City after her parents decide on a trial separation, sixteen-year-old Sammie learns to deal with her mother's fragile mental state, her best friend's self-centeredness, several new friendships, and her own budding sexuality.

Haley, feeling alienated from her best friend since she started dating a guy several years older than her, has difficulty when her mother's boyfriend starts making advances toward her and she feels she cannot discuss it with anyone.

All thirteen-year-old Raspberry can think of is making money so that she and her mother never have to worry about living on the streets again.

When she and her mother move once again in order to make a new start, fifteen-year-old Kayla is hopeful that her mother will be able to stop drinking and begin a better life, as she has been promising for years.

Sandra is attempting to cope with an alcoholic father, finding a job, and getting on with her life; however, others around her continue to pressure her into trying to find her missing mother.