Calling Out My Abusive Father

AITA for calling out my father for abuse and abandonment?* I’m a 20-year-old woman.

I have a 12-year-old brother and a mother who survived a violent marriage. This started in

2016, when I was in 5th grade. We had just moved from the UAE to

India. One weekend, I saw my father slap my mother for the first time.

She stormed out of the house. I was terrified. I went looking for her—calling her

friends, checking relatives’ houses—until finally people came to confront him.

When I came out of my room later, the TV was broken. My aunt and her friends were leaving.

Nothing felt normal again. Instead of apologizing, my father *forced my mother to file