Sweeping this under the carpet will no longer suffice, for we as a nation keep tripping over the mountain of damage, death and destruction produced from domestic abuse. The only way forward is through honesty, for there is no freedom in pretense. Dialogues between all parties involved, within a genuinely safe environment, (for those who have been injured and impacted) are crucial. The closed doors behind which domestic abuse occurs need to be swung open, and the winds of change ushered in; so that women and children in this first world country are no longer victims of an insidious national secret.
