Any child would love their parents who raised them.
It would be difficult for them not to love them.
They would accept their parents' flaws and would likely accept whatever circumstances they were brought up in until they came to learn that they were not living an ordinary life and that their parents were not treating them as they were supposed to.
They would likely find excuses for why their parents were acting that way.
They would be more likely to accept the excuses and apologies from their parents if it happened once or more times after that.
They would want to believe that it was something else that changed their parents to act that way.
They would want to believe that their parents would not do the same thing again, just like they had promised them.
One promise would be broken.
Another promise would be made the next morning.
That promise would end up being broken once again, the moment that they were drunk again.
The cycle would continue to repeat until the victim had had enough of it.
Within the confines of one of the smaller living area had been where, one of the children had been staying.
There were bales of hay laid out so that they could be slept on by anyone who would rest there.
With there being no thick walls up, the noise travelled outside quite easily, but it had been a secluded spot where most would not visit during that time.
When the parents chose their targets, they usually went after the weak who could not fight back.
They would always go after those who were alone.
Anyone who would make an easier target would end up becoming a better target for them.
It saved there being any witnesses or interference.
Even if they were drunk and disoriented, they still had their habits and way of doing things.
A woman's voice could be heard from within as she was yelling at a boy who seemed to be in his early teens.
He was lowering himself and trembling out of fear that any of his actions could end up provoking her any further.
It was a learned response to that type of situation, as it had happened many times before.
Another way of explaining their actions was called a conditioned response.
It was a natural behavioural reaction that would be acquired through learning, rather than one that would occur naturally.
They would be learned behaviours, unlike unconditioned responses, which would be more automatic and innate.
Conditioned responses could generalise to similar stimuli and could extinguish if the conditioned stimulus was repeatedly presented without the unconditioned stimulus.
They could play a role in habits, phobias, therapy, and learning, illustrating how experiences could shape behaviour over time.
In essence, a conditioned response would reflect the brain's ability to anticipate and react to events based on learned associations, highlighting the fundamental principles of classic conditioning in behavioural psychology.
The conditioned response was to survive and to adapt to a traumatic situation.
It was to avoid any further abuse and not provoke the situation any further than what was already taking place.
Even crying too loudly would draw attention to them and possibly provoke the anger of their abuser, so they had to do it as quietly as possible or to completely silence or stop themselves from crying altogether.
They would have to hold everything in, and they were not even able to let out their feelings openly out of fear that it would become something that would end up putting them in a worse situation.
Just as things were getting worse, a figure was seen approaching from outside.
They stepped out of the shadows and moved closer to the entrance where the noise was coming from.
They entered and came upon the scene of the mother raising her bottle in the air as if to throw it.
The scene was all too familiar, and it was one that Tiffany had witnessed many times.
It had been that very action that had caused her to be injured and had resulted in her deciding never to return.
A strong grip held that arm in place causing the bottle from being thrown.
It may have been aimed at a wall or on the ground, but there was still a danger of it hitting the target that was not too far away, just like how it had once hit Tiffany.
Old habits were difficult to change.
When someone got into a pattern of those types of actions, they tended to keep repeating them over and over.
That habit had still not changed even after such an action had been believed to have killed Tiffany.
Usually, that kind of experience would make some people change their ways, but nothing had actually changed.
That very same violence was being inflicted upon another.
There existed a chance that another life could be endangered by their actions.