[Margaret Pilkington]

In such a situation, no-one can know exactly what they would do.
I would hope that as a mother I would have made an exit before such an event took place.
If a father can act in such a violent way against his children I would hope that there would have been signals before this arose.......and that I had acted on them.
Children should not witness such things......and in many cases the violence is hidden, but the results of the violence are definitely picked up by children. It harms them as much as if the blows had been directed at them.
No act of violence ever can be said to serve the greater good.