What a terrible thing.... those children, the poor kids. <img border="0" alt="[Teary]" title="" src="graemlins/teary.gif" />
I have a perm restraining order against a Bremmerton Police Officer (near Gig Harbor) - actually former officer. He used his dept issued cuffs <shudder> - anyway...
The job is so high stress, and by it's very nature - can be quite violent.
Police officers (and the military also) have a higher rate of domestic violence than the general population - this isn't my opinion or anectdotal - there are studies and if somenone wants me to I could take a peek around and find some... (or you could go to google and do it yourself <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" /> ).
They are also less likely to seek counseling. Again - there are reasons, studies, yadda yadda. Personally I can tell you that folks in the military know that seeking counseling goes into their record, and thru the command, so it isn't a private kind of thing... and sometimes looked upon as a weekness or defect.
I know that Amanda has been affected by one little act of violence she witnessed. I say 'little' because it was nothing compared to what these children witnessed.
Scott threw a vaccum cleaner at me (911 was already on it's way) and she was hiding under the dining room table.
But, she still is affected by it - she is afraid of the vaccum cleaner, and says things sometimes (even to strangers in the line at the grocery store) about how daddy lives somewhere else - or mom and dd are divorced because....
She was almost 4 when it happened - and these poor children with wiolently dead parents are 8 and 5.
They'll have some amazing fallout from this.
I'll be praying for them. <img border="0" alt="[Teary]" title="" src="graemlins/teary.gif" />
