"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 rea..."
- Joe Peters
"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 ..."
"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."