Emma tells her story of surviving domestic abuse.

Our Ambassador Claire Throssell speaks out about the devastating murder of her children, her continuing battle to change the family court system and the support she received from her community.

I thought, I can’t be abused. That only happens to women. I didn’t want to believe it. But when it all ended, when she left me, when we divorced, that’s when I realised that I was being abused.

I was actually still in school when I met him. I was 14 and he was 24. He was engaged to his soon to be first wife.