A Survivors Story: Resiliency Of Domestic Violence Victim

A Survivors Story Reflection A Survivors Story was an in depth look into the trauma and resiliency of domestic violence victim. A defining moment of the movie was the tail of the unadorned violence the father exposed throughout the household. The father brutally raped and beat both mother and daughter, in addition, to physically walloping both of the brothers. He as the head of the household spared no one from his reign of violence and give no insight into his lunacy. Ms. Trujillo remembrance of a lack of family’s verbal skills in the English language and the need for both family and service support was key instant. Her indication of those issues made me feel as if those lack services or social support was reasoning for the father’s violence and the father’s inability to properly support his family.

Ms. Trujillo’s describing the mothers cognitively removing herself outside while she was being raped and beaten by her father before a family church event was dismaying. The mother standing outside tending to other business was her way of disassociating herself and coping with physical and emotional abuse of the husband on the family. More so, as a professional the lack of the police officer’s knowledge on the response to calls involving domestic violence was alarming. The describing of the event made me aware that the police officers of the time did not have the training of handling domestic violence calls. It made me think of the severity of the physical and emotional abuse women received as domestic violence victims of the period. Ms. Trujillo’s telling of her college experience was