A 2011 Senate hearing on the subject found that childhood exposure to domestic violence actually “changes who they are.” David Sousa, author of How the Brain Learns, told me, “It’s virtually impossible for these children to realize their full potential as adults, unless they unlearn what was learned.” Cdv

A real man, a real woman, a real writer, a real poet, a real whatever. I don’t really care. All of that is really rubbish. Who is anyone to tell anybody else what is real?! Whose standards and parameters are you living up to?! Get off the ‘real’ and just be true yourself. Me

Living with domestic violence burdens children with a sense of loss and profound guilt and shame because of their mistaken assumption that they should have intervened to prevent the violence or tragically because they caused it Cdv