It says: "While hundreds of thousands of children grow up suffering from the emotional and psychological damage of experiencing or witnessing family violence.
Born the illegitimate son of a low-echelon government official, Son grew up in poverty, suffering much discrimination.
A Purchase alumni from the suburbs of Chicago, Rachael grew up dancing, later suffering a traumatic injury.
"I grew up witnessing the suffering of my people and this was not new to me," explained the son of farmers raised in a rural community.
As a child, I envisioned myself doing something to solve this problem when I grew up --something to helpeoplele suffering from disease in my own community.
I grew up with the idea that this suffering made our family even more noble – though I was also taught to despise that nobility.
Here, he will find widespread poverty, suffering and deprivation – things he grew up experiencing and has openly spoken out against.
The author's long-suffering mother, Martha Harris, grew up middle class in Mount Vernon, N.Y.
"I'm an Oromo, I grew up in Oromia, so I understand the suffering of my people very well.
