How Easy We Have It

So here goes a social work related post (It's my future career, I'm allowed). I have just finished watching one of the most shocking and upsetting programmes in quite a while, and it has fully enforced the reason that I have gone down this path.
Victims of domestic abuse often suffer in silence and we have to ask ourselves, why is this the case? Is part of the problem that we as a society are reluctant to admit that this happens? We don't want to admit that something like this could be happening next door, across the street from you, it could be happening to members of your own family and you don't know who to turn to - not thinking that anybody is going to believe you, that it's all attention seeking, its not true. How is it even a possibility for us to consider that someone might be lying about something like that. What these victims are going through is torture and some might not even be aware of it, might not be aware that what they're experiencing is not normal, and we're willing to brush it under the rug?
Domestic violence is a killer - we need to address it as a nation - be willing to admit that it happens and begin to think about how we can support someone, how we can encourage them to see the strength they have in themselves to make it stop. We need to be able to raise awareness and stop the suffering of those who experience it. Because we don't know what the future holds, and maybe at some point in the future we'll be wishing that someone was there to listen to us, to be a pillar of strength when we ourselves are put in that situation and need to find the strength to stop it.

I urge you to watch this and consider it, because no one deserves to be made to feel worthless or to sit there and take the abuse and violence and maybe, the more people that are aware of it, the more we can fight against it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00w7qqc/Alesha_Dixon_Dont_Hit_My_Mum/