Don't be so sure they weren't abused. Many people (I was once one of them) deny it happened (I thought I had had a "normal" childhood, that everyone had that kind of bad, and tried always to focus on what little "good" had been there). Over the long years since, literally every one of my friends from back then who I have stayed in touch …
Don't be so sure they weren't abused. Many people (I was once one of them) deny it happened (I thought I had had a "normal" childhood, that everyone had that kind of bad, and tried always to focus on what little "good" had been there). Over the long years since, literally every one of my friends from back then who I have stayed in touch with (except one, and I can attest she wasn't - her mother was my mother's good friend and recognized "something was going on") has revealed some often-horrific things that were going on for them, that no one would have suspected from the way they acted at the time.
Watching "Gaslit" I was interested in the portrayal of the relationships G. Gordon Liddy had with his children, which are horrific. Yet to this day his son maintains he had a "wonderful" childhood with a "good" father (and surprise surprise he's as politically nuts as the old man).
Don't be so sure they weren't abused. Many people (I was once one of them) deny it happened (I thought I had had a "normal" childhood, that everyone had that kind of bad, and tried always to focus on what little "good" had been there). Over the long years since, literally every one of my friends from back then who I have stayed in touch with (except one, and I can attest she wasn't - her mother was my mother's good friend and recognized "something was going on") has revealed some often-horrific things that were going on for them, that no one would have suspected from the way they acted at the time.
Watching "Gaslit" I was interested in the portrayal of the relationships G. Gordon Liddy had with his children, which are horrific. Yet to this day his son maintains he had a "wonderful" childhood with a "good" father (and surprise surprise he's as politically nuts as the old man).
Gaslit was fabulous!