I believe my parents would have been abusive regardless of their religious beliefs, but their religion fed and encouraged their abusive behaviors. Most days my parents' abuse wasn't bad enough that Child Protective Services would have stepped in, had they known about it. And my parents were white, college-educated, conservative Christians, so they received more slack from the system. My parents just celebrated their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary. But white picket fences and jade anniversaries are not always what they seem from a distance. Sometimes, they're downright sinister.
-- Aubri Drake, Nonbinary Memoirs of Gender and Identity, p. 166
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