I remember him talking about someone in his family - maybe him? - going through 4 divorces on both sides. Moving from place to place, never having a base.
To read the following on Wiki blew me away! That he even made it out of high school is a miracle!
Brown had a difficult childhood; after her divorce, his working mother received welfare benefits.[14] Brown experienced sexual abuse from a camp counselor who threatened to kill the 10-year-old boy if he told anyone—which he did not disclose, even to his family, until his autobiography Against All Odds (2011)[15]—and physical abuse from his stepfathers.[16] During various periods of his childhood, Brown lived with his grandparents and his aunt. He shoplifted many times,[16] and was arrested for stealing record albums and brought before Judge Samuel Zoll in Salem, Massachusetts at the age of 12.[17] Zoll asked Brown if his siblings would like seeing him play basketball in jail and required Brown to write a 1,500-word essay on that question as his punishment. Brown later said, "that was the last time I ever stole."[9]
