Dear Peaches:

Your father is and has been troubled since childhood. He has been and is abusive to you, to your brother and to your mother. It is a great shame and I wish it wasn’t so.

I believe that it is not true that his mother was a good mother to him, that “she and (your) grandfather loved him and did their best to raise him into a decent man”. I believe these are not true because I don’t believe a baby is born bad, that a young child is bad. I think a young child wants nothing more than to please his parents, nothing more than to be good.

Often parents are the sweetest people in the world to strangers, but not to their children.

What is next, for you?

anita