team, tried to kidnap
and was caught, he refused to press charges and convinced my mom not to
because it was it my fault for attracting [those people]. I was 11
years old.

My mom never left him. He has the social skills of a 5 year old. He
threatens not just myself but my mom and sometimes outside people. He
is a coward, he runs at the slightest hint that he has ticked someone
off but he cannot resist the urge to threaten and provoke other people.

Today, he is the same person he always was. People like that do not
change. I don't want to say anything bad about my mom so I will just
say that she still puts up with him. She feels that a "lot of fathers
are just that way", she is verythe connection between proverbs and culturally grounded behavior and attitudes in his investigation of enemyship and distrust/fear of social others in West African settings. He notes that belief in the existence of dangerous others in immediate social circles are mirrored by proverbs such as "if an insect bites you, it comes from inside your clothes." Adams goes on to utilize a variety of quantitative data sources and a cultural comparative approach to demonstrate the difference in the cultural grounding of social relationships between West African and North American cultural settings.

Because of the limited amount of research in the area of proverbs and the African psyche, as well as cultural differences in the prevalence, utility, and functions of proverbs between various African and Western (the de facto control in