OK you now have me in tears! Of joy and grief, because I have just found your comprehensive site that will help me in the difficult situation I am going through.My best friend’s 19 year old daughter found herself in a relationship last year with a man 5 years older and fell pregnant. In February of this year, with a daughter of a couple of months old, her partner (a policeman) threw her across the room, causing compound fractures to both her arms, requiring surgery for plates and pins. Of course it was “all the lass’s fault.” If you hadn’t behaved that way, I wouldn’t have lost my temper…Her mother came to me for support, as she is already taking care of her middle age husband with Alzheimers. A couple of nights ago, I got a phone call from the lass, who has been moved out by herself with bub to a fairly isolated village and is now living alone until the trial comes up in a month.What she told me left me dumbfounded. The lass’s mum is getting together with her abusive partner, who is saying all the right things – about how sorry he is, how he wants counseling for both of them, etc – with a view to getting the two back together. You have no idea of the anger that went through me. The lass wants no part of this, but in her frail state is finding it difficult to gather her thoughts together and fight it. So I am stepping in and intervening – though I know this could lead to the end of a very long friendship with my friend. I fear not only for the lass, but also the bub. The lass’s head has been filled with all sorts of rubbish by her mother too – there’s only one bus a day (totally untrue); you don’t want to take bub to playgroup as winter is coming up and she will get sick. Mum is also not letting her have the car seat back, which she could have used in some of her friends’ cars to get about. The lass is now also being abused by her mother.So thank you a million times for this site. I must confess I have not fully read every page – yet – and so I may be speaking out of turn. But as a suggestion (if not already in here). Would it be possible to add a section about the support most young girls would expect from a mum. If mum is going to help, you would expect her to have your welfare as paramount – yet in this instance, it appears the opposite. I am appalled at how easily my friend seems to have been brainwashed by the man.May you continue to help people across the world! Thank you…RozanneMittagong, NSWAustralia