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When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

A family going through a divorce, a child under attack by a demon, all these things I could relate to.

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.

My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

I think I was raised by a really good mother.

I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try to explain what my world was like when I was sexually abused. The thing you have to remember is that this was the thinking of a child.

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.