"Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, i..." — Leslie Morgan Steiner

The most important experience for learning to be a mother is your own mom's experience.

Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.

Our culture encourages women to nurture men, making it predictable that many experience a seductive empathy for abusive men, as well as the misguided hope that love can obliterate an ugly past.

My husband worked on Wall Street and was an Ivy League graduate as well. In our world, we were the last couple you'd imagine enmeshed in domestic violence.