After her parents divorced when she was approximately four years old, Laurer had three different stepfathers and one stepmother.

Observing the relationship between her father and stepmother, and their affection toward her half brothers, she is said to have become embittered and developed a fierce personality.

The family, as a rule, consists of marital, or extramarital partner, child in wedlock, out of wedlock, adopted, stepchild, and child taken in to be supported, father, mother, stepfather, stepmother, grandfather, grandmother (on both father's and mother's side), and brothers and sisters of spouses.