Kincaid says that she was treated badly, that she was neglected.
"I don't know if having other children was the cause for our relationship changing - it might have changed as I entered adolescence, but her attention went elsewhere.
And also our family money remained the same but there were more people to feed and to clothe and so everything got sort of shortened not only material things but emotional things, the good emotional things I got a short end of that.
But then I got more of things I didn't have, like a certain kind of cruelty