This is a PSA to all women.
If your boyfriend smacks you around, beats you up, lays a hand on your kids, I'll be there to take you away to somewhere safe, protect your kids and beat the shit out of that MF'er because I personally enjoy making cowardly, predatory "men" bleed. Also because I know from personal experience that telling the police "Yeah I did it, because he was smacking his girlfriend around" is like presenting a get-out-of-jail-free card.
If your boyfriend smacks you around, beats you up or lays a hand on your kids the second time, I'll be there to take your kids away from you, and call you a pathetic coward.
You can be a victim and a pathetic coward at the same time, But if you choose to have a child, you have an obligation to protect the child with your life. Your fear of being alone or even your fear of being hurt does not supersede your obligation to protect that child.
If a man hurts you once, he'll do it again. If you think "he'll change", you're lying to yourself. If you think that getting your ass beaten every-time his team doesn't win is better than being alone, that's your choice. When you bring a child into that equation, well, everything that happens to them is your fault, as equally as it is of the asshole you chose to shack up with. Because you knew it would happen.
The first time, you have my unequaled sympathy and unrelenting vengeance at your disposal. The second time, fuck you. You are pathetic, you knew this was going to happen and you chose to wait around for it. You knew what you were getting into and chose to ignore it because you were afraid. We all get afraid, having a vagina doesn't give you moral immunity from the consequences of your fear.