Given that children have immature and distorting logic, it often happens that kids in abusive families consider themselves as the cause of the father's outbursts, and at the same time blame themselves for being unable to protect their mother.
尤其以孩子不成熟而扭曲的邏輯，很容易認定自己是父親發怒的原因，同時也責怪自己沒有能力保護母親。