Dave lived a slow expanding life, as if he gradually stretched his wings throughout his teenage and adulthood after being compressed for so long during his earlier years. His faith and personal responsibility helped him transform into an emotionally healthy and competent adult. A large percentage of emotionally and physically abused children become abusive in their adult years. The abusiveness could be a cycle, passed down from generation to generation. This can be seen clearly through Dave Pelzer's mother, who has been abused herself during her childhood. Her anger, rage and pain of being abused were never expressed. At first, she was a loving parent who cared for her children's every detail in clothing and lunchboxes. Yet, somewhere around