Dave Pelzer Thesis

In this book, a struggling teenage boy named Dave Pelzer that in his childhood years, got abused by his alcoholic mother and sent to foster care, was trying to put his life together before he turns 18 and gets sent out to the world alone without any support or money. Dave soon drops out of highschool wanting to join the Air Force, so he applies to become a fireman like his father once was. Unfortunately, Dave suffers from setbacks in the Air Force and eventually gets transferred to California where he met his gold digging girlfriend Pasty. He realizes her crazy money spending problems the fact that she was just using him so her family could have a place to live and tries to dump her, until she announced that she was pregnant with his son
Stephan. Dave didn’t want his son to live a life with separated and fighting parents like he did, so he rushes into marriage with Pasty for their son. For Stephan, Dave lived through 10 years with a broken marriage and decided that he needed to make more money after retiring from the Air Force to become a sometimes unprofitable job as a motivational speaker. His wife Pasty didn’t his job because he at times didn’t make money for it so she wanted a divorce. During the separation Dave tried to make money another way by publishing his two first books of his memoir where he meets his second wife. With the success of his books, he gains more fame as a speaker. Shortly after moving to his dream home on the Russian River, Pelzer remarries.