You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.

Hi Mom! Hi Dad! a sequel to David was publiLynn Johnstond in 1975. In September 2007 Lynn and Rod Johnston announced their separation and intention to divorce. Personal life
Since the 1990s Johnston has been notably forthcoming in her discussion of the abuse inflicted on her by her mother her first husband and being unprepared to be a mother to her son Aaron—topics which have also been reflected in the strip.

Lynn Johnston CM OM (born May 28 1947) is a Canadian cartoonist well known for her comic strip For Better or For Worse and was the first woman and first Canadian to win the National Cartoonist Society's Reuben Award.