Ep 325: Coercive Control: A Child’s Unthinkable Journey with David Challen, Part 2
Crime Analyst
Laura Richards
4.9 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:30.1 | Now as a child, I was born with a pit in my stomach that I know now that my father was bad. |
| 0:34.6 | And I knew it at the time, but I didn't have a reason why. I normalized |
| 0:38.6 | every other violence that happened, the life of servitude that she had, that fear and control. |
| 0:43.6 | And I was waiting for a moment, like an acorn that was blooming into more signs that I was being |
| 0:49.3 | aware what was going on my home, the veil that fell. And what adult child survivors need to know is they |
| 0:54.9 | have an ability of their own survivorship to claim it. And there's no weakness in that. There's |
| 1:00.7 | strengthening identity in community. And if we can share our stories, the more of these unthinkable |
| 1:06.2 | acts like in my book and what's happened to my family don't happen to any other family. |
| 1:11.5 | And there's a line in the book where you talk about, you know, well, I keep thinking I was there, I saw it, and did I do enough, almost saying? |
| 1:19.7 | I mean, did you feel guilt? I felt immense guilt. You know, we all knew there were alarm bells growing up, but we were just robbed the language. |
| 1:28.4 | Coercive control is a language that is afforded to us now, but it's not being shared and proliferated. |
| 1:33.2 | There's hardly any awareness campaigns on this. |
| 1:36.3 | And we don't even want to teach it to young children who are affected by this too. |
| 1:40.7 | So we have to look at it holistically from the communities, education, families, |
| 1:45.6 | you know, emergency services, are they doing enough? It's a collective effort. If you say |
| 1:50.1 | domestic abuse and violence against women, it isn't your issue, you're the problem. I'm sorry, |
| 1:54.4 | that's the truth. It's very clear the love you have for your mum, but this is a complicated, |
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