Ellyn Ahmer

My earliest experiences with conflict were growing up in an ordinary, middle-class, white family of five children. I unconsciously learned about the power structure very early. Adults are in charge. Kids do what they do to get what they need. When their needs are not met, they resort to many different behaviours to survive. The variety & intensity of needs within a group of seven people caused much conflict, most of it unspoken & unresolved.