I was there myself as a child through my adult years until I left for the Army. I was physically beaten until I bled as discipline until I got bigger and stronger than my father stopping him myself at age 16 at the dinner table before he could beat bloody me again while my mother protested " Why don't you just let him hit you and get it over with "! And why I hate abusive people!
My ex-wife started out sweet but once married she became a control freak verbally abusive wife. Damn Bi polar is what it was that I did not learn about until married.
But happily my life is free of any of this crap; I will never forget, and I only forgive my father after hearing his life story on his hospice bed. "F" the ex-wife, no wait one of you other SW folks can "F" her; just leave me out of that one! LOL!
