My father beat my six-year-old daughter while my mother and sister pinned me to the ground, screaming that I had “destroyed the family.” They thought I couldn’t defend myself. They didn’t know I was already preparing to press charges, expose every secret, and bring down the family they tried to protect by sacrificing my daughter.
I used to believe that family conflict had limits, that even the most dysfunctional people would stop before hurting a child. That illusion was shattered […]