women-only domestic violence shelters
As a child, I spent several months in a domestic violence shelter with my mother and sibling. Even though the fence around the shelter was too high to see over or jump over - even though the address of the shelter was a secret from the public and even the women staying there - I remember my mother begging for a room with no windows. At that point, there weren't many things my father did not stoop to, to remind us he could do whatever he wanted. The possibility that he could s