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An abuser’s best friend is silence: the silent fear of the victim and the silence of those who could report

50% of royalties will be donated to Domestic Violence Organizations

FAMILY TREASONS is a treatise on the perils of abuse, whether physical, emotional, or sexual, at the hands of a parent, a spouse, or another relative, a one-time event, or an ongoing trial. These events are often publicly labeled as shameless, nameless, and blameless.

While those who perpetrated such evils are not guileless, they certainly dealt with their own demons: a narcissistic personality disorder enmeshed with a bipolar disorder, an obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, alcoholism, and/or polysubstance abuse. This is not to exonerate them but as a recognition of the complex cycle of abuse.

Some of the culprits are pictured: living individuals are not identified; dead souls are acknowledged only by their forenames [parents excepted].