Children are wrong. Parents are right. Why?–because parents are older, more knowledgeable, and the ones with the higher authority. Eva Mechanicsburg proves this wrong when she illustrates a story convicting her father of all the wrong actions he shouldn't have committed. In her memoir of  “A Lifetime of Abuse,” she accuses him of verbally abusing her and her mother. Mechanicsburg goes to extreme lengths to deal with her father’s abuse and attempted suicide with pills.
Child abuse put Eva in a vulnerable state where she was traumatized by her father’s neglect and abuse for her and her mother. She states, “he has belittled my emotions and dehumanized me, driving me to become self-destructive.” Her father’s abuse is manipulating her happiness and causing her depression. Eva introduces to me the seriousness of verbal child abuse and its brutal effects to a child.