WOW!
The heartache and the pain were excruciating, and that was just me reading it. He had to live with the tortures that almost took his life. Dave survived his early years of abuse, and matured both physically and mentally because he was rescued as a young boy.
I want the violence in our homes to stop and our children to be rescued from mentally ill parents. I know what happens to a child when they are not rescued and now I know what happens when they are; a Dave Pelzer is allowed to evolve.
Thank you Dave for all the hard work you do and the hours you put in and the schedules you keep to help our children. Thank you for inspiring us all.
Books by Dave Pelzer
A Child Called “It”: One Child’s Courage to Survive (1995)
The Lost Boy: A Foster Child’s Search for the Love of a Family (1997)
A Man Called Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness (2000)
The Privilege of Youth: A Teenager’s Story (2004)
Help Yourself for Teens: Real-Life Advice for Real-Life Challenges (2005)
Moving Forward: Taking the Lead in Your Life (2009)
This book deals the issue of severe child abuse from the victim's point of view. The author writes about his ordeal in a child's tone. When I read it I thought to myself, this kid is a survivor and very mature for his age. His story is very dark and what he goes through made me cry.
ReplyDeleteI look at my own child and there is no way in heaven that I could harm him. What kind of monster must his mother have been in order to treat him like she did. She does not even warrant being called a mother, because mothers do not do that to their child.
But the whole story is not about child abuse, it is infact about the inner strength and the courage that David Pelzer showed. He is an extraordinary person who has been to my nightmares and back. He demonstrates through his writing that the human spirit is inextinguishable. His will to survive is a lesson to all.