A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer
...se you see on greeting cards, and old, classic television shows. Everything was good, and life was perfect for him. He had a family whom he loved dearly, and whom loved him in return. However, soon, this love fades away. Little by little, his mother begins to become very emotionally and mentally unstable, and becomes an alcoholic. Once this begins to happen, this family whom could once be compared to the Brady Bunch family, is now becoming more and more dysfunctional. His father is almost never home, and his mother is becoming angry with this, and feeling lonely, and takes all these feelings out on her children. It began with his mother taking it all out on all the children, but as the days went by, her anger and resentment was centered to just Dave. After the anger was centered to only him, he began noticing that his brothers, too, were treating him like dirt. It was almost like the fairy tale of Cinderela being played out with a male in the role of Cinder...