I can confirm that! I was getting hit nearly everyday by the mother, when i was a little child (parents are seperated, must've go to live with her, even youth court told later i must stay by her since "it's the law"... wtf!?)

I haven't had many self-confidence, have beaten her back when i got bigger and stronger and at the end i canceld contact to her, now since some years. And the best part is: She doesn't even understand how bad of a mother she was, why i'm cancelling contact etc. Perhaps don't tell it's my fault for getting bullied at school but help me somehow? Help me with the homework or learning, instead of laying in the sun. And most of all don't hit me, only because you got angry for nothing... Like why is it so dirty her? Even if it was clean... She cleaned everyday and i was like, ok perhaps i made accidentely a little dirty, like bread crumps on the floor. And then? Tomorrow you clean anyways again, so why do you bother for those little crumps on the floor now!? And then bamm! A hit for talking back...

Once i called her accidentaly an asshole in the morning after we had a little fight. After it came out my mouth i ran downwards in the other bathroom and closed the door by key (it was the only door that still had a key to close it, the only safespace for me). She told me to open up the door. I said no, since you will hit me. No, i promise, i will not hit on you. Ok. So i opened up the door and got a hit anyway, since i "earned it"...

And after all that shit she still doesn't understand why i cancelled contact to her...

Now i'm father myself and i try to make everything right with my son. I've never hitted on him, don't even have a reason for it since he is so a nice, beautiful guy! Sometimes i don't have the patience, i must assume, and get a bit angry, when we are in the bathroom to change his diappers but he doesn't lay down, but continues to search for something in the little chest beside the changing station and it took so long to search for him, that i could change his diappers 3 times... Also i'm a bit worried since the changing station is on our washingmachine and i'm afraid he would fall down from it. So i got that worrying too and want to let this whole changing-thing behind as fast as possible. So sometimes i get a bit loud, not often, but sometimes. And then i take zhis little chest from him and put it on the toilett, so we can proceed to change his diappers. He crys then, when i take this chest, but i can't help... I always say search something you want to play with, while i change your diappers, but he continues to search and search for no objective reason, like he doesn't even know himself what he want...

But else everything is fine :)