Too much

Hi folks,

I just wanted to remind everyone that all of your posts to other members here must be supportive, as per our Community Guidelines. You can disagree on a topic, but you should still post supportively to the original poster (OP) of the thread, no matter what the issue.

If this is a topic that is triggering, please utilize self-care strategies and don't post in an unsupportive way on a thread that triggers you.

I don't wish to lock this thread, but I will do so if it continues to be unsupportive.

JKbob I hope you find it within you to change your situation and advocate for you and your kids. Everyone is truly concerned and it may not feel that way or even sound that way but at the end of the day there are many others on here who have been in your shoes or been the kids in those shoes. ((((JKbob))))

I swear this is my last comment on the subject. Statistically speaking, men who hit their wives also end up hitting their children in the majority of cases. Studies vary, but anywhere from 50 to 85% of men who abuse their wives also abuse the children. ACADV: Children And the Effects of Domestic Violence
This is a really good article for how domestic violence affects children even when they are not struck themselves. jkbob, you know what you said earlier about your children being present for the abuse. You know that they know. I sent you a personal message about my experience and how it affected me to know that my father did not love me enough to protect me and the lasting results of both the abuse and not being taken out of that situation. At least read the article, please.

I don't get what we are to be supportive of? Child endangerment? I can't support that.

Maybe supportive of a person's decision in their particular situation, I don't and can't support child endangerment. Or supportive of a person's feeling's. But I do feel when children are involved sometimes an external agency needs to step in as people in that situation often cannot "see the forest for the trees"