Unfortunately, without intervention, childhood trauma tends to beget additional trauma. Children of parents experiencing relationship violence can also be categorized as victims, as the traumatic effects of exposure can reverberate throughout their lifetime. National survey data suggests that one in three women are affected by intimate partner violence, and that the majority of those women are mothers. Her story is one that occurs all too commonly to adults who were exposed to parental violence, and she now uses her experience to advocate and help raise awareness for the realities of domestic violence. Taylor describes herself as one of the many faces of domestic violence, and at last week’s annual Fall Luncheon Event: Igniting Social Change she shared her harrowing story and how despite being a national television star, her husband’s abuse caused her to fear for her life. Taylor Armstrong – author, reality TV star, mother, and domestic violence survivor debunks both these beliefs as she shares how the vivid memory of abuse as that two-year-old girl impacted relationships. Surely she has the means and support to leave, right? You may even believe that the glamorous lifestyle of a woman on our television screen could not be a woman who has and is experiencing life threatening abuse. That the two-year-old little girl, asleep in her mother’s bed, waking up to her father hitting her mother will be alright once her mom leaves her abusive father, right? You may believe that leaving an abusive relationship is the end of living in fear for victims and their children.
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