I went out every single night so I was never alone with my stepfather. At 12, I stopped going on holiday with them. The times I was alone with him I always made sure I was all covered up.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.
My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.
One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.
I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.
I was living with my stepfather for a while, and then I moved out and went and lived on my own in Hastings-by-the-Sea from about 16.
My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
My parents broke up when I was six. Before, I was a very active, naughty child, but after my father left me, I stopped talking. I became very good at hiding my emotions. I felt so ashamed of telling others that I didn't have a father, because that was not common in the 1960s.
My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.
My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.