Sometime ago I read a book about this boy named it. his name was Dave. However his mom would refer to him as "it" That poor boy endured the worst punishment for six years of his life, from the age of six to the age of 12. at the age of 12 he was taken out of his mothers home. After he left his brothers had to endure years of mental abuse from thier mother. Now I'm reading a book intitled Dave, and this book is also written from Daves perspective and in this book, he's trying to understand what made his mother the way that she was. He beleives that it had something to do with her childhood. That she herself had endured abuse as a young child, which is why she had been abusive towards him.