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Lien grew up in a middle-class household in Phnom Penn during the '60s and early '70s (Lien is a pseudonym. She requested that her name and those of her family be changed to protect their privacy). The eldest of eight girls and boys, she worked every day after school in her parents' grocery store, handling bookkeeping and selling such items as Coca-Cola. After work she went home to cat supper, do homework, and help her mother around the house...
Today, at 80, retired from writing fiction, Simenon lives in a Swiss retreat with one of his former household maids. Popular fancy has tended to see him as the model for the benign, pipe-smoking Maigret, but Bresler maintains that the only connection is wish fulfillment. Maigret, with his equanimity, his intuitive sympathy for others, his fidelity to one woman, is the man that Simenon never could be. Less plausibly, Bresler attributes Simenon's "stunted sexuality" to his rejection by, and rebellion against, the formidably dour widowed mother he left behind in Liège. (When Simenon...
...idea of marriage and a family. Lulla's predicament enlightened me to the fact that, for all the polemical feminist literature I'd digested since I was 12, my harsh beliefs had essentially taken shape within the safe and cozy confines of a happy middle-class suburban household. It struck me, many years later actually, that radicalism is a privilege which most people haven't the right to abuse...
Male adults, including fathers, stepfathers and live-in friends of unwed or separated mothers, all too frequently beat children too. But the cruelty of child abuse is most traumatic, and most widely abhorred, when such men prey sexually on young girls, sometimes barely past infancy, in the household. Some examples: ¶"All the time my father would be having sex he would be telling me I really liked it or telling me what a great body I had," writes Linda Halliday, 36, in The Silent Scream, her autobiographical account of how her father had regular intercourse with her, as well...
...crime and arrest criminals, and social agencies, directed by civil statutes in many states to place a priority on helping families end the abuse so they can remain together. When the abusive situation in a home seems unlikely to change permanently, authorities often argue over who should leave the household: the offending adult or the victimized child. Since it is easier under most state laws to remove the child than force a parent to leave, that is how the problem is most often resolved...