We were just a normal middle class family.
Mother stayed home looking after four children with another on the way. Father
was an electrician by trade. Then my little sister was born. I was now the
middle child. Unfortunately my mother died as a result of complications giving
birth to the last child. I was three years old. The new baby was put up for
adoption.
My father could not work and look after four young children. He started drinking and drank himself into a stupor for the next eight years. He became a chronic alcoholic. The four children were separated and each stayed with a different aunty. I stayed with an aunty until I was five. I was a happy child, still in a family environment. At this stage my father decided that the children should be together. We were all placed in a children’s home where the nuns would look after us and give us a good private school education.
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My father could not work and look after four young children. He started drinking and drank himself into a stupor for the next eight years. He became a chronic alcoholic. The four children were separated and each stayed with a different aunty. I stayed with an aunty until I was five. I was a happy child, still in a family environment. At this stage my father decided that the children should be together. We were all placed in a children’s home where the nuns would look after us and give us a good private school education.
http://netk.net.au/AbuseCases/StanislausTony.asp