He has beat my mom up so many times – I can’t even tell you…But it’s like we can’t tell anyone because if anyone knows or hears about it, he’ll lose his job and we’ll have to move out and I won’t be able to go to school, and my mom doesn’t even have a degree or anything and what’ll we do?”
She was crying even harder…
Jordan was beginning to grasp – as well as a twelve year old can – how much the trauma of this kind of abuse had affected her friend. In some ways she could relate to the chaos at home but in other ways she couldn’t imagine what it would be like. She felt horrible. As the conversation winded down, Jordan felt drawn to tell her friend about her recent bed-wetting episodes.