Child abuse has been a very real ordeal for us recently. We took in 5 foster/kinship children in 2006 and 2007 because of some horiffic events that had occured involving abuse. We had a total of 8 kids in the house, and believe me, 8 is enough!
I Love reading books. Here is s review of a book that I read recently about child abuse that was inspiring and heart wrenching. The truly great thing about this book is the triumphant character of the author despite the hell he lived through.
Read it if you get a chance!
A Child Called It by David Pelzer certainly was a heart wrenching book that I had a hard time putting down and a hard time staying with as well. I stayed glued waiting for this crazy lady to just snap out of her psychosis and things to return to normal or waiting for David to just hop a train and ride off forever, but it did not happen. David endured incomprehensible circumstances that many grown men could not endure. The abuse that he suffered is horrid to say the least and pure torture that only the sickest or most evil mind could perform. In one of my other classes with Dr. Harden, part of a discussion on the foreknowledge of God and the free will of people brought out questions of how God could create such monsters? The answer does not lie in the negative but in the positive when it comes to the triumph of people like David.
I could not help but ask why this was happening just as he wondered time and again. What is just as disturbing as the physical abuse of the mother is the lack of true action on the part of the father. He was just as guilty as the abuser and both of them are truly psychotic or demon possessed. In the end it seemed as if David did not have answers or closure, but he was free. Perhaps it was enough to know that his parents were sick and he did not have to endure it anymore. I could never truly know the feelings or heart ache that he suffered but his story has brought me closer to understanding what many abused children have gone through and it has helped me really appreciate the love of God.
