Another major character in the book is "Stephen Pelzer" he was the father of Dave Pelzer but there was no picture of him. He was very close to his brother and in the book "Richard" was treated better than Dave. While Dave tried to finish his chores fast enough to get food his brother would be sleeping or getting ready for school. His mother would pretend to be nice to him before child protective services would come and ask him questions about there behavior inside there home. Of course David would lie and think that things have changed but after she would leave things went back to the way they were.