Mae West

Love as Always, Mum xxx: The true and terrible story of surviving a childhood with Fred and Rose West

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  • Екатерина Карташоваhas quoted3 years ago
    I would never, ever wish the painful things that have happened to me on anyone else, but I have learned from some of them. I look at my mum and dad’s lives and can see that certain behavioural traits have been passed down through the generations. I don’t know whether this is to do with nature or nurture, or a combination of both. I know the abused can become abusers, and in my parents’ case that was true. However, I strongly believe this doesn’t have to be the case. The cycle can be broken. My own children have grown up free of the terrible consequences of physical or sexual abuse. They have also grown up in a secure environment of love. I feel confident that this will also be the case when my own children become parents
  • Екатерина Карташоваhas quoted3 years ago
    Over the years I have had people suggest that we would laugh at the crimes of our parents, relish the details of their perverted sex lives, play with the bones of their victims and even use their kneecaps as ashtrays. Though I can see why what happened in the Cromwell Street house has attracted such ghoulish interest, I’ve found it very hard to deal with the assumption some people have had that my sisters, brothers and I grew up to think our parents’ cruel and bizarre behaviour was normal
  • Екатерина Карташоваhas quoted3 years ago
    Knowing your parents are regarded by most people as evil beyond belief is incredibly hard to live with, especially when your own experience of them has been more complicated and you’ve seen a side to them which makes them more than simply monsters. As I’ve tried to show, both of them had a side which seemed, at times at least, like other people. Mum could be tender and gentle with very young children; she had a sense of humour. Dad could be friendly and make us laugh.
    But I realise that many people will never be able to regard them as human in any way they understand
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