She is completing work on a second M.Ed in counseling at Vanderbilt and is the daughter of educators. She married in 1987 and has two children, ages 14 and 7. She became interested in Ezzo parenting because of the haunting look in the eyes of Ezzo-raised children at a church she attended. As a result of her concern, she began researching the potential long-term emotional damage to children from being reared under Ezzo parenting.