<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/92d787e1-8bbb-45b3-aef0-12a72925ccb9/93B8591B-7063-4BBD-95E4-2890F8C08869/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/27/parental-abuse-domestic-violence" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/27/parental-abuse-domestic-violence" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/27/parental-abuse-domestic-violence"><A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/domestic-violence">Domestic violence</A> was something that happened to other people until 7pm last Thursday night, when it happened to me. I was, I suppose, the victim: although what happened didn't make me feel like a victim. All the same, I was physically abused. My hair was pulled, my glasses were torn off my face, and my leg was bruised.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/27/parental-abuse-domestic-violence"><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">But the aggressor wasn't my partner: he wasn't even in the house at the time. It was my daughter, aged 15, who lashed out at me, kicking and screaming, as we locked horns over her request to go out that evening.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/27/parental-abuse-domestic-violence">Even a week later, I'm shocked that Emily and I could have come to this. It has made me feel a failure: I feel ashamed of how we ended up, I feel I drove her to it and am confused by why and how a fairly ordinary domestic situation got so quickly out of control</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/27/parental-abuse-domestic-violence"> <P>Bailing out on her simply isn't an option.</p> <P>So what can I do? </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/27/parental-abuse-domestic-violence">What is crucial, from everything I've read this week about this kind of violence, is to nip it in the bud and make sure it doesn't become a habit</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/93B8591B-7063-4BBD-95E4-2890F8C08869/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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