adult child abuse victims

Tracy Ross never knew her biological father who died after a brain aneurysm when she was still an infant. When her mother married Donnie, four-year-old Tracy got a step-father who was gregarious and loved the outdoors. The family was close and Tracy had the dad she dreamed of---protective, brave and kind. His nightime visits began when Tracy was eight and her childhood became a confusing blend of normal little girl moments and the sickening, secret invasion of her safety. She became a teen-age runaway and at the age of sixteen realized she must take control of her own future so she sent herself to boarding school and began a twenty-year journey towards recovery, using the outdoors she had loved as a child to help the healing process.

By the time he was thirty, Richie Farrell was a heroin addict. He stole from friends, used drugs during visits to his children, lived in abandoned mill buildings, and was always running away from himself. He attempted suicide and when that failed, he was ordered to detox.

Richard is David Pelzer's brother. While Dave was removed from his mother's home by the time he was twelve years old, his brother Richard was not. He became the new scapegoat for his mother's alcohol-fueled wrath. How he survived years of his mother's abuse is the subject of this book.

Contains nine personal essays about child abuse and neglect, including stories from those who have been abused by family, boys dealing with clerical abuse, and abused children dealing with issues of their abuse in adulthood.

A memoir of the author's childhood growing up poor and homeless but eventually earning a scholarship to college, and offers advice to the reader on how to reach your full potential.

The author describes his childhood filled with nightly beatings and unspeakable abuse by his mother and how he found the courage to survive.

Richard B. Pelzer, author of the childhood memoir "A Brother's Journey," continues his personal story, chronicling his teenage years and young adulthood during which he suffered his mother's emotional abuse and struggled to come to terms with her physical abuse of him and of his brother David when they were small.

The author describes her life as the daughter of a woman afflicted with Munchausen by proxy, a form of child abuse in which a parent, most often a mother, invents or induces illness in a child in order to gain attention from medical professionals, tells how she was able to save herself, and discusses her efforts to have another young girl removed from her mother's care.