Featured in Pakeham Gazette: Verbal abuse is also family violence says perpetrator

30th November 2017. Reading Time: 1 minutes Media. 812 page views.

“I never saw myself as a violent guy, I just thought I was a man who could get angry from time to time” “What I didn’t realise then is that my anger was a form of family violence."

David Nugent was one among the hundreds of people who marched the streets of Pakenham to unite against domestic violence on Saturday 25 November.

After seeking help and eventually helping other struggling men as a result, David says the key to the prevention of violence is through consciousness and raising and shifting perceptions.

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