Released from Shame: Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families

I was almost an abortion.<br > And I would have been， had my earthly father s plans succeeded.<br >Obviously， my heavenly Father had other plans， and my mother was on<br >God s side. I have never met， seen or viewed a photograph of my<br >biological father. Everything I know about him comes from my moth-<br >er. She describes him as having a brilliant intellect， a charismatic per-<br >sonality and a disturbed mind.<br > Mother believes that my father married her because she had a small<br >sum of money and planned to move from her native Massachusetts<br >(where they met) to Arizona. After their marriage， Mother learned that<br >my father， who was twelve years her senior， had abandoned his wife and<br ><br >