Don’t suffer in silence - Carlisle News & Star 9th May 2008

ONCE was the time when domestic violence was accepted as a hidden crime. Not entirely condoned perhaps but tolerated as a matter solely between man and wife, partners in private conflict. Mercifully those days are gone. Abuse in the home is regarded now as a wholly unacceptable blight on family and social life, a severe risk to life and safety, one of the principal sources of destructive emotional scarring.

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