 Solanas said that she regularly suffered sexual abuse at the hands of her father . Her parents divorced when she was young , and her mother remarried shortly afterwards . Solanas disliked her stepfather and began rebelling against her mother , becoming a truant . As a child , she wrote insults for children to use on one another , for the cost of a dime . She beat up a boy in high school who was bothering a younger girl , and also hit a nun . Because of her rebellious behavior , her mother sent her to be raised by her grandparents in 1949 . Solanas said that her grandfather was a violent alcoholic who often beat her . When she was 15 , she left her grandparents and became homeless . In 1953 , she gave birth to a son , fathered by a married sailor . The child , named David ( later David Blackwell by adoption ) , was taken away from Solanas and she never saw him again . 
