Call police about domestic violence and get evicted

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14. Yeah, let's just make the children forced to witness said violence homeless.

Or let's make them too afraid to seek the help they need for fear of becoming homeless.

As a child, I had to witness this stuff. Certainly more than 3 times in a 4 month period. I was already afraid enough of going to authorities because child protective services in the state I lived in had a horrendous reputation of "losing" foster children, so I did not report some things that I should have because I did not want my mother to lose custody of me.

Even then, there were the times when my mother and I went to the police...

It took a damn lot longer than 4 months for us to line up the necessary support structure to get out, but we did get out. Abuser later got fired from his job due to his anger management issues. What happened to him since, I neither know nor care.

Now sure, let's just add the fear of eviction to hang over my head in the above situation. A situation in which both my mother and I had to balance fear of losing material needs (i.e. shelter and food) against fear of the gun in the house as it was.

You have no idea of what you speak.