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On a related subject, please encourage your listeners to call the police if they hear/see domestic violence going on.  As a child, my father repeatedly beat my mother, leaving her with black eyes and broken bones. But no one called the police, even when incidents happened in public.  My brother and I were too young to know what to do and so had no voice and received no help.

As a result, we grew up believing this was fairly normal behavior.      My brother became a substance abuser and both my brother and I married, unbeknowst to us, bi-polar people who continued the cycle of abuse.    I believe that if our community had stood up against abuse during our early years, all in our family would have benefited.

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