UGLY - The true story of a loveless childhood

[Serenity82]

Re: UGLY - The true story of a loveless childhood

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: chitown</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Constance Briscoe...


honestly, though...why the disbelief? [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70402-thinking.gif[/img]

what about the legal action against the stepfather (when Constance was 12)? what about the mother leaving the home (when Constance was 13)? seems to me these two situations (and possibly other situations she wrote about) could be proved/disproved quite easily

yes, I realize these examples do not equal physical abuse, but the average 12-year old does not take legal action against the father figure in their life either...I believe something 'not so normal' was going on [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70402-thinking.gif[/img]

yes, there are many reasons to dislike this book...but, I still don't see how any of those reasons automatically make what she wrote untrue... </div></div>

Well, she's beautiful now!

[Gen]

Re: UGLY - The true story of a loveless childhood

many times...it's only 1 child out of a household of many children that end up getting abused..the parents/caregivers sometimes tend to focus on one child ...the other children are usually well kept and fed

[chitowngirl]

Re: UGLY - The true story of a loveless childhood

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ivoree</div><div class="ubbcode-body">For some reason I can't help but believe the story and that is why I am having troubles reading it now. It is so real. I don't understand why someone would write something so painful if there wasn't some truth to it.</div></div>
I agree 100%... [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70402-thinking.gif[/img]

imo, she could have 'profited' equally from a book about her road to judgeship or her own culturally diverse family...

so why drag her family through the mud (as they say)...it seems to me that she was driven by a passion that would be hard to understand unless you had actually experienced something as awful as what she describes in her book...btw, weh di blue/sad smiley?

[mangoskin]

Re: UGLY - The true story of a loveless childhood

any mentionof her biological father?