When their parents found out, they didn’t do a thing. It was something I would never expect from my parents, or from any parents for that matter. Growing up with my parents, I expect all parents to be the same, so I would expect them to overreact, ask a million questions, and more importantly ask if they were okay. But they were cold and distant. Lopez’s mom never spoke of it and even never spoke to him. Even when she was dying, lying down in her death bed she refused to hold her son’s hand. Lopez described his last moments with his mother by saying, “her face averted, she wept silently while I sat mute in a chair by the bed. She would not take my hand” (131.) In her efforts to try to pretend it never happened, she actually makes the situation worse for her son. Cynthia Crosson-Tower writes in Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect, the different reactions parents may have when they discover their child was abused. “Some totally avoid the fact that abuse had taken place”, Crosson-Tower writes, “wishing not to…show more content… It’s not gratifying enough and it doesn’t solving anything. The parent’s actions have definitely skewed their children’s lives with the lack of attention and affection. But why would someone have a child if they don’t want them? And if they do have a kid, why would you neglect it from your love and care? In Elizabeth Tallent’s essay, Little X, she writes about her childhood that was filled with unrequited love and attention from her parents. Her parents never maltreated her or abused her. But they never gave her any attention. Tallent admits “it was not possible to blame them, it would not have occurred to me at ten.” (164). She didn’t expect any more from them because that was all she ever knew. “The truth is”, Tallent explained, “I was sickened by myself for being a child they wanted not to know about.” (164). She blamed herself for her parents’ failure to acknowledge her; she blamed herself for her parents’
