“Here’s something weird,” writes author Stephen Elliott. “My father, who was an awful and abusive father, is leaving bad reviews of my books on Amazon.com.” In a short essay on his website, he details the one-star review (headlined “Awful”) and says, “If there’s a lesson here I guess it’s that abusive parents don’t stop being abusive just because they get older. Abusive relationships are psychological in nature and if you know an abuser, someone who lashes out and can’t control their emotions, get away from that person. Cut the cord and never look back.”