Silent Screams

This book is about a family consisting of a controlling, abusive, drug addictive father, aneglectful mother, and their children. The children fear for their own futures as well astheir health. The children befriend caring and protective neighbors who have beenwitness to similar behaviors in the past. The neighbors, an elderly couple, become veryprotective of the children, They attempt to provide for the children the type of goodexamples that they hope will stir the children's imagination and create a pride in them soas to be better persons than the examples they have become accustomed to seeing athome. It becomes a precipitous course as the father, being wary of any kind of interference inhis control of the family interjects his prejudices into the relationship. Then the fatherbefriends the neighbors in an attempt to use their financial means to improve his ownfinancial position. The children's friends become wary of the of the fathers intentionsbecause of their learning of previous acquaintances of the family who have had to resortto the law in order to have their properties returned. The children's friends feel they haveto make proper the decisions to protect themselves in the future from any financial losses.These decisions result in further confrontations with the father.Frazier, John is the author of 'Silent Screams', published 2006 under ISBN 9780595383757 and ISBN 0595383750.