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Erased Abuse Scenes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ6KBpmZplE & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqV8YV0SplY
This was a very startling anime to watch. The art style fits in with others that are rather innocent and jovial but this series throws violence and mature themes right in your face. Kayo, the child who is abused by her mother is a very quiet and antisocial student. This is obviously due to the violence and threats of her mother. Satoru (the young boy) obviously is trying to help but Kayo still lies to him due to her mother’s influence. This was really prominent is showing the psychological effects of domestic abuse on children. The red eyes of the mother and the placement of her hands-on Kayo’s head and shoulder was strong imagery that has stuck with me. What really shifted my view on Kayo’s mother was the fact that she was abused by her husband and still resorted to beating Kayo. One would think that having received abuse, you would not want to pass that on to your child and continue the cycle of abuse.
Tomohiko, I. (2016). Erased [Video]. Tokyo: A-1 Pictures.

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Psychiatry: The wife beater and his wife

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Psychiatry: The wife beater and his wife

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After delving into domestic violence from a modern perspective in previous texts, it is interesting to look back historically at how domestic violence, and our perceptions have changed. We have discovered that some points are still relevant, and texts must not be discounted because of their age.

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Life can be a fairy tale if you break the silence

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Life can be a fairy tale if you break the silence

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The preconception of women from higher socio-economic standings not suffering domestic violence is beginning to be challenged with society becoming aware of how far reaching this violence is.

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YouTube video: Domestic violence - Stop it at the start

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YouTube video: Domestic violence - Stop it at the start

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This text challenged our assumptions, we had believed that after experiencing violence as a child, one would be less likely to become a perpetrator of violence later in life.

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Australian Government - Domestic Violence - ‘Stop It At The Start’ - BMF

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ABC News Article: Domestic violence: Thousands of parents seeking help from police for growing issue of violent children

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ABC News Article: Domestic violence: Thousands of parents seeking help from police for growing issue of violent children

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This article challenges the mainstream view of domestic violence being parent to child or partner to partner and has allowed us to broaden our definition of what domestic violence is and who it can involve.

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Updated May 19, 2015 20:14:30

Thousands of Australian parents are seeking help from police and courts to protect themselves from a little-talked about aspect of domestic abuse: violent children.

It is a significant and growing problem, estimated to account for about 9 per cent of all domestic violence.

In Victoria alone last year, police were called to more than 4,000 domestic incidents where children were the perpetrators.

The ABC's 7.30 program has spoken to families about their struggle with violent teenagers.

Victorian woman Tina Broadby said she feared her son, Shane, could kill one of her daughters, who are aged between seven and 16 years.

"[I'm worried] that he will hurt one of the girls and maybe kill one because that's how bad the temper, I think, is," she said.

Shane is aware of his violent behaviour and said he was worried he could hurt his sisters.

When asked whether that included the possibility of killing one them, he agreed.

"Yeah, probably," he said.

Shane grew up in a violent household and regularly fought his father.

He admitted to punching his mother and throwing his sisters to the ground, and his mother said he had tried to smother one of his sisters.

Shane, who is now 18, said he had no memory of many of these attacks.

He blames his sisters for starting the trouble.

"After they ... push me around and all that or swear at me I go to my room but they block the doorway so I can't go in a room or outside," he said.

"So that's what makes me angry then and I push them or I usually throw them."

Responding to assaults by children difficult, police say

A program called Time for Youth in Victoria is one of a handful of agencies offering counselling and other support to families and their violent children.

The agency is attempting to enrol Shane in a training course to give him a non-violent outlet for his problems.

Police said responding to assaults by children was one of the most difficult parts of their job, as parents are reluctant to press charges even when assaults become extremely serious and even life-threatening.

"In many instances family members are to the point where they just want the violence to stop," Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Dean McWhirter said.

"Then we become very limited as to what we can do if they don't want that young person charged.

"We don't have the capacity to remove them from the home, unless it's by consent with the parent and also by consent by the child."

When child protection authorities become involved, they are more likely to remove the siblings of the violent child rather than the perpetrator of the violence.

Jo Howard, from Kildonan Uniting Care, is an expert in the area of adolescent violence, and said removing siblings actually did nothing to address the use of violence.

"In many ways [removing the siblings] penalises the mother because she's separated from her children," she said.

For Shane, the best option is to go to his room, where he tries to control his temper.

"I usually put music on and draw," he said.

"That makes me feel better.

"It feels like all my anger goes into the pictures I draw, how I feel."

Topics: domestic-violence, law-crime-and-justice, police, australia

First posted May 19, 2015 16:40:38

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Parents seek help to deal with violent children

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Updated May 19, 2015 20:14:30 Thousands of Australian parents are seeking help from police and courts to protect themselves from a little-talked about aspect of domestic abuse: violent children. It is a significant and growing problem, estimated to account for about 9 per cent of all domestic violence.

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Reflections: E Carter, K Jardim, K Davoren

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Reflections: E Carter, K Jardim, K Davoren

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Throughout our research we began to see common trends which either reinforced our assumptions or dramatically altered them. Many of us begun our assignment with the assumption that domestic violence only occurred in lower socio-economic groups and were shocked to find out how prevalent it was amongst more affluent groups within society. We also learnt that domestic violence occurred between siblings and in some cases, children perpetrating domestic violence against their parents. Many of us held the assumption that experiencing violence in childhood would mean you would be less likely to experience (or commit) violence in adulthood however our research showed us otherwise and we saw the cyclical nature of domestic violence portrayed in much of our research.

Our texts provoked much thought, and as each of us asked questions so began the journey of changing assumptions. Famous writers such as Maya Angelou and Sylvia Plath were an interesting comparison. Both abused, both used to write about their emotions, yet one went public about domestic abuse and the other kept quiet, which shows that no matter how famous a poet one is, or how wide one's audience, the stigma of abuse is huge. Another new assumption that our group learned was that when the abused person does leave, they do so for the sake of their children and not for themselves directly. Images that each group member put up in our chats were sometimes confronting and the idea grew that this is a powerful way to create awareness public awareness. There was also speculation about how an abused person's life would have changed, had they spoken up. All in all, the questions and sharing of reflections created an deepened awareness about domestic abuse, which sadly is a big part of society.

This topic was a bit daunting at first. Looking of these issues at first seems to be a sensitive area that as a person you naturally want to avoid. After thinking about it for a while I realized that much of the media I consume shows traces of domestic violence. I found this really surprising at first to reflect on as it seems I had become desensitized to the exposure through various mediums. Delving deeper into my selected primary texts I found the common thread, the children being abused by a parent. Upon discussing with the other group it turn out we have all fallen into out own little areas of interest within the domestic abuse domain. Some saw the stereotypical socio-economic norm being broken, some saw parents being abused by children but the most common on course was between a husband and a wife. It was nice to be able to discuss all these different areas whilst still maintaining our own focused area. One of my largest conclusion from this task and the discussions is the effect of the recipient and the cyclical nature that many abuse victims seem to face either receiving abuse from a new person or becoming the abuser themselves.

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Why women leave...and it's not for themselves

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Why women leave...and it's not for themselves

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I found it insightful that when women leave it’s not for themselves, but for the sake of a child. I hope anti-abuse organisations use this angle in their campaigns, to encourage the abused to think of their children. My texts and my peer texts are showing me on important thing; that domestic violence does not discriminate, and here it includes the disabled too. I’m left thinking, what if every person made an effort to make it easier for an abused person to leave, whatever that might be.

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OVER her three decades, Rachel* had become accustomed to being beaten; having her ribs broken and eyes blackened, being shouted at and controlled, and even raped.

But it wasn't until her primary school-aged son started copping it as well that she realised the violence and trauma that was going on under her roof every day and night wasn't just part of normal family life - it was abuse.

Raised in a less-than-stable family and inflicted with an intellectual disability, the southern Sydney woman fell into a cycle of abuse and manipulation.

She would become attracted to men who promised to keep her safe but ended up controlling her. The worst of the men who caused her pain in her life, the father to two of her children, had managed to convince her that she was lucky to have him even though he hurt her.

"There was physical stuff but it was more the mental abuse. The control - that had the worst effect," the now 34-year-old told news.com.au. "It's a lot of trauma. He had financial control and got me to the point where I didn't have anyone else to rely on."

Rachel can't remember how many times she moved during the years she was with this man. He convinced her that they needed to keep jumping states for work so that he could get better jobs and provide for the family, but she later found it was actually because he was on the run from police, and, she believes, determined to separate her from her friends and family.

"Honestly, I had nothing. Because we kept shifting and he didn't let me go to family things, I had no family," she said.

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As well as the isolation and control, there was physical abuse.

"I had fractured ribs, bruised eye sockets, all the time. He used to rape me constantly and he used to tell me it was OK for him to do it," she said. "I had nothing else so I relied on him and didn't really have a choice but to stay with him, but then [son] Lachlan* used to cop it as well."

Rachel had left and helplessly returned to Lachlan's father a number of times, but finally, with the help of child protection authorities, she gained the support to get herself and her children to safety, and found out the truth about her partner's criminal past.

It was a good move for the family. It didn't quite break the cycle of falling into abusive relationships, but helped her to recognise when she needed to get out.

"Lachlan used to cop it off my second partner too," she said. "He used to cop it off him all the time, but once, when I was pregnant, he picked him up and pinned him against the wall.

"I said you put my son down now, and he put him down and I locked him out of the house. That was it."

That was it for the relationship, but not for the trauma. It wasn't until Rachel came across the services of Campbelltown-based BaptistCare and its Break Free program for child victims and witnesses of domestic violence that she and Lachlan started to heal.

Although Rachel and Lachlan's story is horrifying, it's something that the program's director Lesley Robson has seen play out time and time again. While 36 per cent of adult women in Australia have experienced violence by a known perpetrator since the age of 15, of those, 22 per cent experienced physical violence during pregnancy by a current partner and 25 per cent have suffered violence while pregnant by a previous partner.

Australian Bureau of Statistics data indicates that, of women who had experienced partner violence and had children in their care, close to two-thirds said the violence had been witnessed by children.

And according to Ms Robson, when mothers who are victims of partner violence leave or seek help, it's almost always to protect their children.

When women and children who have been in abusive families present to her, Ms Robson says her job, and the job of her colleagues, is to work to break the cycle of family violence as much as it is to help the individuals.

"For us workers, the focus is always on the children," she told news.com.au. "What we realise is that if you don't work with the children, you're going to have violence forever more. We must intervene early if we're ever going to break any cycles."

As well as coping with the trauma of either falling victim to or witnessing domestic abuse, Ms Robson says the priority for children is education from a young age, including teaching respectful relationships and keeping their bodies safe.

"We try to normalise their lives as much as possible, and do everything we can to teach them about safety, protective behaviours, identifying who they're safe with, and what a respectful relationship looks like so they can understand what it will mean for them to have a respectful relationship as adults," she said.

And it's not just something kids who have already experienced domestic violence need to learn.

"There is good work being done in high schools, but very little government intervention and education at a preschool and primary age for all children. That's what needs to be done, and it needs to happen at a younger age," she said.

Rachel says this education is something she missed out on growing up.

"I didn't know what was happening to me was wrong. I don't blame anyone for that, but there needs to be more education about domestic violence. There's got to be things taught about control and financial abuse, and recognising it," she said. "I know what it looks like now and I hope that my children can recognise it and that they can also know what a healthy relationship is like, and that's what they can have."

*Names have been changed in this article to protect victims.
BaptistCare hosts its annual fundraiser for women and children experiencing domestic and family violence tonight. To donate to their programs visit hopestreet.org.au If you or someone you know is impacted by sexual assault, domestic or family violence please call 1800 RESPECT on 1800 737 732. In an emergency, call 000.

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One thing that makes family violence victims leave

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OVER her three decades, Rachel* had become accustomed to being beaten; having her ribs broken and eyes blackened, being shouted at and controlled, and even raped. But it wasn't until her primary school-aged son started copping it as well that she realised the violence and trauma that was going on under her roof every day and night wasn't just part of normal family life - it was abuse.

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I wonder about the power of the media to show the horror of abuse. I hope police use this tactic more in creating a narrative that makes people notice. I feel for the woman who has to walk those steps. Oddly, I can understand why she stays, especially if she has a child who has to walk the same path. Is it that the price of her silence is safety? The abuser uses fear to imprison and this I wonder if this is the crux of domestic abuse.

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"A picture is worth a thousand words."

Never has this saying been more painfully true than when you're confronted with the shocking image taken by a police officer on a domestic abuse call-out in London, shared on Twitter by Inspector Rowlands of the Metropolitan Police.

Big, sharp knives are deliberately stuck on either side of every step. There appears to be a bullet on the floor. It is an utterly chilling scene.

We don't who the woman is. We don't know who her abuser is. But, as the Chief Executive of Women's Aid, I can tell you now what this picture represents: it is the almost universal barrier to leaving a violent and abusive partner that so many women face.

Invisible prisons

Women don't leave because they are afraid, and with good reason. This picture shows clearly the very real threat to life that escaping domestic abuse represents. The knives symbolise that threat: "If you try to leave, I will hurt you. If you try and flee down these stairs, I will stab you."

This is why many women are unable to leave: fear for their own life or their children's lives. The Femicide Census proved that women are at significant risk when they try to break free of an abusive man.

Seventy-six per cent of women killed by their ex-partner or ex-spouse between 2009 and 2015 were killed within the first year that followed separation.

Remember, for many survivors of domestic abuse there are knives that line their route to freedom. They might not be physical - but they are there.

Domestic abuse is an invisible prison. So the next time the question is asked, "Why doesn't she just leave?" - remember this picture.
Polly Neate is Chief Executive of Women's Aid
More from i Domestic violence survivor told to bring spouse to close joint account This stalker caused his ex-partner's suicide - but he's far from the only one Cricketer who lied about job offer jailed for domestic violence

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Next time you ask 'why doesn't she just leave?' - remember this picture

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"A picture is worth a thousand words." Never has this saying been more painfully true than when you're confronted with the shocking image taken by a police officer on a domestic abuse call-out in London, shared on Twitter by Inspector Rowlands of the Metropolitan Police.

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I get the irony of the love she mentions and I wondered how despite the abuse she became so emotionally strong and then it struck me how bitter she sounds, and really, who can blame her?  She was abused from young and I marvel at how she became a survivor. I deeply admire that she chose to write this poem, for I think this helped her and it helps others too. Now when I think of Angelou I will think of this poem, and her other famous poem, “Still I rise.” I wonder how her life would have changed had she remained silent.  I wish more women would learn from her and not keep quiet.

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A sad contradiction for a writer who wrote about her feelings most of her life. I was shocked that this text says Hughes assaulted her and wanted her dead. It bothers me that she couldn’t write freely about this abuse and that instead she only confided in her therapist, probably because this was the only person she trusted. I wonder if she had published her account, if this would have averted her suicide or her miscarriage. No one knows, but she carried a huge burden and I imagine she must have felt alone and feared the stigma that accompany abuse. Or perhaps she blamed herself?

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Sylvia Plath alleged Ted Hughes beat her two days before she miscarried their second child and that Hughes wanted her dead, unpublished letters reveal. The two accusations are among explosive claims in unseen correspondence written in the bitter aftermath of one of literature's most famous and destructive marriages.

Written between 18 February 1960 and 4 February 1963, a week before her death, the letters cover a period in Plath's life that has remained elusive to readers and scholars alike. While the American writer, who was living in England during that time, was a prolific letter writer and had kept detailed journals since the age of 11, after her death Hughes said his wife's journals from this time were lost, including the last volume, which he said he destroyed to protect their children, Frieda and Nicholas.

Sent to Dr Ruth Barnhouse - the model for Dr Nolan in Plath's autobiographical novel The Bell Jar, who treated the writer in the US after her first documented attempt to kill herself in August 1953 - the correspondence is understood to be one of Plath's only surviving uncensored accounts of her last months, in which she produced some of her most famous poetry, including the collection Ariel.

Nine letters written after Plath discovered her husband's infidelity with their friend Assia Wevill in July 1962, form the core of the collection. The letters are part of an archive amassed by feminist scholar Harriet Rosenstein seven years after the poet's death, as research for an unfinished biography. Also included in the collection are medical records from 1954, correspondence with Plath's friends and interviews with Barnhouse about her therapy sessions with the poet. The archive came to light after an antiquarian bookseller put it up for sale for $875,000 (£695,000).

Plath's treatment with Barnhouse ended when the poet moved to England but the two shared a close friendship, which has long been of interest to scholars because of their affection for one another. The correspondence reveals a warm and open intimacy, as well as a shared sense of humour.

But as well as exposing her pain at the discovery of Hughes's adultery, the most shocking passages reveal Plath's accusation of physical abuse shortly before miscarrying their second child in 1961, in a letter dated 22 September 1962 - the same month the poets separated. Several of Plath's poems address her miscarriage, such as Parliament Hill Fields: "Already your doll grip lets go."

The extent of their estrangement during this period is revealed in another letter in the collection, dated 21 October 1962, in which Plath claimed to Barnhouse that Hughes told her directly that he wished she was dead. Though Plath had a history of depression and self-harm, and had attempted to kill herself in 1953, she didn't reveal the full extent of her struggles with mental health to Hughes until some time after their marriage.

The unseen letters were written at a time when Plath was troubled by her mental state, during the disintegration of one of the most famous literary romances of the 20th century. Yorkshire-born Hughes had met Plath, a Fulbright scholar, while they were students at Cambridge University in 1956. Hughes was already an established poet and she had gone to a party on 25 February of that year with the express desire to meet him. Within four months they had married and the two quickly formed a formidable and mutually beneficial creative partnership that resulted in Hughes's breakthrough Hawk in the Rain collection and Plath's semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar.

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Hughes and Plath in Massachusetts, 1959. Photograph: Alamy

Public fascination with their relationship has endured, in part because of how their creative output drew on their life experiences. During October 1962, Plath wrote the majority of the poems that would be included in Ariel - published posthumously in 1965 - which include many references and iconography often interpreted as being about Hughes. These include the lines in Daddy: "I made a model of you, / A man in black with a Meinkampf look / And a love of the rack and the screw." Plath wrote to her mother during this period: "I am writing the best poems of my life. They will make my name."

Reflecting on their relationship decades later in Birthday Letters, his 1998 collection about his time with Plath and the aftermath of her death, Hughes recalled their stormy liaison. The book was his final riposte to the feminist critics who, in the 70s, spoke out against Hughes over his treatment of Plath. During that time, he was interrupted with shouts of "murderer" at his readings; American feminist Robin Morgan published the poem The Arraignment, which began with the line "I accuse/Ted Hughes". Plath was buried in a grave that read Sylvia Plath Hughes, at Hughes's insistence. It was targeted by vandals who removed his name.

In his 1998 collection Howls and Whispers, Hughes quoted one of Barnhouse's replies to Plath in September 1962, in the title poem: "And from your analyst: 'Keep him out of your bed. Above all, keep him out of your bed.'" In 2010, Hughes's apparent final word on the turbulent relationship was published in the form of his poem Last Letter, which described what happened in the three days before his wife died.

Plath scholars hailed the letters and archive as a remarkable source of new information about Plath, whose collected letters are soon to be published by Faber, with the first of two volumes due out on 5 October. Co-editor Peter K Steinberg said: "It's an amazing collection of material that has been completely off the radar."

Describing the letters, which he has not yet seen, as "tantalising", he added that he expected them to reveal details that would otherwise be unknown in the absence of her journals and other letters. He hoped it would be possible to include the newly discovered material in volume two. Citing the "sensational" poetry Plath wrote in October 1962, including The Detective, the Bee poems, and Ariel, he said: "It is possible that Plath found catharsis in writing out to Dr Barnhouse; and that in doing so it freed her to write those explosive, lasting poems."

Andrew Wilson, author of Mad Girl's Love Song, about Plath's life before she met Hughes, said the interviews with Barnhouse would provide an invaluable insight into the origins of her battle with depression and were the "missing link" in her biography and literary history. "These letters look as though they could fill certain gaps in our knowledge, and seem as though they can shed new light on the turbulent, controversial marriage between Plath and Hughes," he said.

The archive first came to the attention of Plath scholars after a rare books seller advertised it online for sale on behalf of Rosenstein, with the collection also featured as part of the New York antiquarian book fair in March. However, the letters may not see the light of day for quite some time. Smith College, Plath's alma mater, filed a lawsuit on 12 March claiming the letters were part of the Barnhouse estate that was bequeathed to it after her death. Rosenstein maintains she was given the letters 47 years ago by Barnhouse. Until the lawsuit is settled, the letters have been taken off the market.

This article was updated on 12 April 2017 to add a statement from the Ted Hughes estate on behalf of Carol Hughes, the poet's widow: "The claims allegedly made by Sylvia Plath in unpublished letters to her former psychiatrist, suggesting that she was beaten by her husband, Ted Hughes, days before she miscarried their second child are as absurd as they are shocking to anyone who knew Ted well."
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Unseen Sylvia Plath letters claim domestic abuse by Ted Hughes

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Sylvia Plath alleged Ted Hughes beat her two days before she miscarried their second child and that Hughes wanted her dead, unpublished letters reveal. The two accusations are among explosive claims in unseen correspondence written in the bitter aftermath of one of literature's most famous and destructive marriages.

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The video game trailer that cause an uproar at the end of 2017. Would you play a game with a story based around domestic violence? Maybe games don't need to be aimed a children and can tackle mature social issues.

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Detroit: Become Human - PGW 2017 Gameplay Trailer | PS4