National Adult Literacy Database

This article is written by the mother of three children, single after leaving a twenty year marriage. In this article, she shares memories of abuse and neglect, from childhood to adult, and the event that helped her to finally break free from the cycle of abuse.

The author eventually entered university as a mature student, graduated with a B.A. in English and, at the time the article was published, was working on a Master of Divinity with the hopes of being ordained as a minister in the United Church.

The article is written in English with a summary in French.