As a victim of daily beatings I don't think I could bear to read a bookwhose second section is aimed solely at protecting "women and children"and whose third section is entitled "perpetrators" leading one to assumefrom the review that the usual preconception of male: bad, woman withchild: good is endemic throughout.
It was a Cafcass officer who told me the violence against me wasirrelevant. I was turned away by Women's Aid because "you are male". Myson lives with my abuser. He has witnessed and faced abuse. Speakingout, to my detriment, has lessened that but he is not out of harm's way.I still worry myself sick.
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