A Child Called It - Make Predictions

This book is about a a young boy about 8 or 9 years old, and he is called "It". He gets mistreated by his mom, and his brothers. He gets thrown in the basement, he starves to death most of the time, he gets chained up and does chores out of the ordinary. He wears the same clothes everyday and his dad works long nights every night that he barely gets to see. he gets bruised, abused, yelled at, and talked about. In the middle of this story, the boy is finally getting treated right from his mom. My prediction is that since now she is being so nice to him, it will last and she will stop mistreating him. But who knows what will happen next?