• Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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    I listened to the audio books of the Helen Forrester autobiographies a few months ago, recommended by CEO here. ( TY 😽 )

    I just can’t stop thinking of them. The books have truly changed how I see poverty, how people talk about poverty and my life too.

    sadly, in the family described by Helen the excuse of poverty was fake, cruelty and selfishness was the point , I know this is not normal for poverty, what Helen described was financial abuse, child abuse, not poverty

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        infuriating? She was a cruel psychopath who only stopped starving her children when threatened with prison by doctors working for the government . The mother was getting fat and the favourite children were healthy