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When Nobody Cares Bonz E 1st edition

When Nobody Cares, A Childs Life in the Systems Shadow is a raw and intimate memoir about growing up as the familys scapegoat in a home marked by violence, manipulation and silence.

From a childhood in a small flat in Valby, through institutions, shelters and destructive relationships, Betina is constantly cast as the problem, the sick one, the liar, the dangerous one. While adults and systems label her, no one asks what actually happened to her.

As she becomes a mother herself, the past refuses to stay buried. Lies, harassment and threats follow her across Denmark, and the same patterns that destroyed her childhood begin to reach for her own children.

At the centre of the book is a quiet but powerful turning point: the day she chooses to step out of the role as the villain in other peoples story, cut contact with a toxic family, and stay for the people who actually see her.

When Nobody Cares, A Childs Life in the Systems Shadow is not only a story of trauma and loss, but of fierce will, boundaries and love. It asks what it really means to say: It stops here.