My Mother Also Grew Up Not Knowing Her Father – Yvonne Nelson Reveals

It appears that Yvonne Nelson’s mother didn’t grow up knowing who her biological father was, as she has said in several passages of her book.

Yvonne said that although her mother had the same last name as a particular guardian who served as a father figure in her childhood, the way the man’s wife treated her forced her to leave the home at a young age.

Yvonne Nelson speculated on potential causes for her mother’s young marriage (at age 19), stating that possibly the treatment she received at the time made such a choice necessary.

“My mother had grown up not knowing her father. Or rather, she knew the wrong father. She bore the surname Glover-Addy. She told me how hellish life was in the house of Mr. Glover-Addy. The man’s wife, she told me, couldn’t stand her. She felt it was beyond the usual tale of a fractured relationship between a stepmother and a stepchild. The house did not lack substance, but the size of the bread the woman served her was enough communication that the intention was to starve and not to feed her,” she stated.

“Such treatment was, perhaps, part of the reason a semblance of affection swept her off her feet and expedited her decision to get married as a teenager. She left the home of the Glover-Addys at age 19 to live with the father of my siblings, but she carried the scars of the treatment she was subjected to for a long time. She still regrets that early marriage, which she says robbed her of education and other dreams. If finding her feet in business and chalking some modest successes in different aspects of her life made her discard the burden of mistreatment in Mr. Glover-Addy’s house, there’s one thing she still bears—the name Glover-Addy,” she said.

Source: Dklassgh.com