Being A Child In A Violent Home Means...
- Hoping your parents will be in a good mood and not fighting.
- Hoping you can just get through breakfast and off to school without any shouting.
- Trying to find a safe explanation for why you never bring your friends home.
- Being careful not to cry or laugh too loudly.
- Feeling that your parents would love you more if you were good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, quiet enough...
- Feeling guilty that you must be such a burden to your parents.
- Lying awake at night, listening to your mother, father, brother or sister crying.
- Living in constant fear that someone in your family will be killed.
