Jessica smiled as she watched her grandchildren at play. How I love them, she thought. I hope they never have to experience what their own parents had to go through. Watching as their mother took beating after beating from the alcoholic police officer who was their father. Never could they go to bed in peace. The fear was always there. When would he be home tonight? How bad would it be this time? The beatings becoming so severe that her children actually pleaded with Jessica to divorce their father. The shame of having their friends know what went on at their house was overwhelming. Then, after Jessica finally got the courage to actually go through with a divorce, she lived another nightmare as she watched her only son battle his own addictions.