http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/4352/0 en http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/my-story-domestic-violence-and-child-apprehension/7467 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> “In Our Own Voices,” Week II </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/13th_-_b._photo_by_joe_philipson_cc2.0.jpg" alt="" title="B. Photo by Joe Philipson" width="450" height="348" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>I was abused by my ex partner, who is also my children&rsquo;s father, for ten and a half years. I had four children with him - Angela, Rosalie, Mike, and Jackson. I was beat all throughout my first pregnancy, and as a result my girl Angela was born a month early. She did not develop properly and was born with her heart on the right side of her body.</p> <p><a href="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/my-story-domestic-violence-and-child-apprehension/7467" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/my-story-domestic-violence-and-child-apprehension/7467#comments B. DTES Power of Women Group Health Indigenous Poverty child apprehension Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:04:04 +0000 isaac 7467 at http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca