Quote Originally Posted by WarKitty View Post
I do also wonder sometimes if gender factors played into all this, too. I've noticed a lot of screening even now assumes gendered violence patterns. So I'd come up as a false negative if they're looking for an abusive father.
It's a sad truth that we tend to assume the man is the abuser even in cases where it's the woman, especially in our family courts. That doesn't seem to be the case here, though; thinking the father is abusing you when it's your mother wouldn't produce a reaction more akin to "she's just not trying".