Every generation learns from the last a reality that is sometimes very unfortunate.
A present-day father may be unable or unwilling to recognize that the cycle of domestic violence and chemical dependency started in his own childhood. He may have watched as his own father went drinking, returned home and took out anger on family members. Now this son acts out the same dreadful scenario with his own loved ones. Undergraduate student Melissa Hatfield is the director. We portray how the cycle of domestic violence and chemical dependency affects every aspect of one s life as well as the lives of family members, said course instructor Norma Martinez Rogers, Ph.D., R.N., a psychiatric mental health nurse and clinical assistant professor in the department of family nursing care at the Health Science Center.