WASHINGTON (Wireless Flash) -- Here's one reason to celebrate this President's Day (Feb. 21): Chances are, you're not nearly as dysfunctional as some of America's presidents.

Family counselor Beverly Hubble Tauke says Americans may be surprised to learn that some of the country's remarkable presidents had their share of grim family pain.

Tauke says Ronald Reagan's father was an alcoholic, while Bill Clinton never knew his father and was later traumatized by an alcoholic, wife-battering stepfather.

Abraham Lincoln is her favorite because his father was an impoverished illiterate who used to beat Abe for being ambitious and trying to learn to read, but "The Great Emancipator" still managed to prevail.

Despite the suffering, Tauke says these future presidents were able to succeed because they all had staunch allies on their side -- usually their mother or stepmother -- and they didn't allow themselves to think they were victims.