“Once when my son was 5, my husband grabbed a knife and wanted to kill our dog. Hysterical, my son begged his father to stop. He just turned around, smacked him and said if he didn’t stop he’d kill him too. All I could do was grab my son and the dog and locked us in the bedroom. This has scared my son for life. I lived like this for many years, in constant fear; he constantly threatened to kill me”.