One step too far: the trigger that makes women walk out on abusive husbands

What a difference it makes when we listen. Actually listen. Thousands of heart-rending, vile stories have been aired at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse, established by former prime minister Julia Gillard. Assault, rape, beatings, shame, cover up, police inadequacy and ignorance, poor mental health, suicides, a stubborn, ugly insistence on defending institutions' reputations, generational legacies, lives destroyed, families gutted, decades blotted with gut-wrenching pain. So much important, painstaking, difficult work remains to be done. But thank God we have at last listened to the survivors of child abuse.

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