Who was the one abusing I wonder? Why won’t her brother positively comment on this account? Why won’t her father support her? “I had to find out if he remembered what I remembered”

"the power of education". Children should have access to education and peers. Sounds like a great story, though. I heard her on a radio interview and I'm really interested in this book. Despite the tremendous difficulties that she must have endured, she sounds so grounded, positive and clear-minded. 😄😄😄

Interesting news coverages interview.

Oh no, this poor woman. Travelling around the world with her family on a 70-ft yacht for 10 years must have been so awful. I can only imagine the horrors she must have faced.

@stanloretta92

7 ай бұрын

I don't know if this comment was meant to be sarcastic, but yeah, it WAS pretty awful for her. A vanity trip for her father, and although it started out fun, the promised three years (which would've let her return to her best friend, relatives she never saw again, and beloved dog) turned into 10, and he just kept sailing without the kids' consent. They were trapped. From age 7-17, she couldn't go to school or have friends. Her brother was allowed to help out above decks, but she was forced to stay below to cook and clean. They often ran out of food, and sometimes fresh water (her father then restricted them to 1 cup per day for drinking and washing). During one of several storms, as a child, "I fractured my skull and broke my nose in that accident and had to endure multiple head operations without anesthesia on the small atoll that we eventually found in the middle of the ocean." She begged her parents for six years to let her go to school, and finally at age 13 they let her enroll in a correspondence course, but they often had her work (her parents turned their boat into a "floating hotel" to pay for the journey) rather than let her study. Eventually they let her brother go to school, but not her, because "As my father once explained it to me, my education was less important since I would never have to support a family." She had no money of her own. She wanted to get an education, but had trouble finding a university that would accept her unusual credentials. But eventually she found one that did, and could finally have her own life, free of her parents' vanity project.

@XxBloggs

6 ай бұрын

None of you know the full story. It was worse for those who knew her.

Her parents are the worst, glad she turned out alright

@XxBloggs

Ай бұрын

Her parents have no right of reply. Don't believe everything you read.

@NikolaiVolkovski

Ай бұрын

@@XxBloggs sounds like something a crappy parent would say

Crazy sail around the world that sounds dumb as hell I rather go by plane to different countries 10 years at sea with no football 🏈 🏈 🏈 bro really?.....SMH

御浪者

Fjb

Wealthy rich people problems. Horrific 😂

@stanloretta92

7 ай бұрын

If you read the Huffington Post interview with her (or see my comment above), it actually WAS pretty horrific.

@XxBloggs

Ай бұрын

@@stanloretta92she's making most of it up.