I agree with you, absolutely. We need to nip this in the bud. We need to be raising children who, from very early in their lives, understand that conflict resolution doesn't have to mean that one person wins and another person loses. Happy relationships are where two people have a relatively equal balance of power.
I don't know why we're not talking about this from day care and up. It seems to be a forbidden topic, as though talking about it is going to make it happen. In fact, talking about is going to stop it from happening.
It's great to get kids into programming once the fact that their family has violence in it comes to the surface, but let's do this. Let's bring in the experts. Let's bring in counsellors from shelters, counsellors from sexual assault centres, and others, to talk with children as young as three and four about what a happy, healthy relationship looks like, and to give them the skills they need to engage in that kind of relationship themselves.