She watched her father beat her mother for years. What does that do to a child? Gender Just now

One recalled a phrase that has never left them: their father, after assaulting their mother, sending the family out of the house with only the words, “Tokeni mfuate mama yenu.“One time, my father physically assaulted my mother, who remained unconscious the entire night.

Two years later, having just sat her Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, an 18-year-old Christine fell out with her father and fled home.