Mum was determinate to crush my spirit and put a stop to my behavior once and for all and she beat me up so violently, so often, that I finally understood I must never question her or so much as look at her directly again.

When you're little you believe whatever your mother tells you, so I assumed it must be true, that I must be inferior to the others in some way.

I guess to their wide, innocent eyes it all seemed like normal family life because they had never known any different. In fact, I was the only one who had lived with anyone else, the only one that realized that life didn't have to be this terrifying and this painful all the time

In memory of children abused by clergy.

Do a cup of Joe with Joe.

I fear that the next wage round will be fierce ... You can never rule out a strike, although I don't wish to talk about one at the beginning of negotiations.