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Dave Pelzer's Childhood
Many people use their childhood as a way to justify the means of their adulthood. This is especially the case when we talk about abused or neglected children. Statistics comes to show that children who suffered from an abusive parent tend to grow up and become the abusers themselves. These children might even become involved in criminal activity. This was not the case for Dave Pelzer. When Dave Pelzer woke up one morning to an abusive mother, he didn’t use this as a reason to behave a certain way in the future. Instead he took it to himself as a duty. He took it to himself that as a survivor of this tragic event to help others and to spread awareness through his memoirs and self-help books.

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