Foster children are often tormented during their childhood by their biological or adoptive parents, particularly when they become a nuisance or irritable to the children's primary care givers such as their foster father. Frustrated mothers and fathers sometimes resort to punish their rebellious and annoying foster daughters by locking them up in rooms, denying them contact with other children, or verbally abusing them. One of the most disturbing themes that emerges from a study of adopted child abuse is the frequent portrayal of the mother or father as the villain and the child as the victim; this pattern of neglect and manipulation is even more prevalent in cases where the biological parent has left the child home alone (with the girl). If you want to read about some of these disturbing scenarios in which foster children have been victimized, visit No Longer Afraid of Cats and follow the links at the end of this video..