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Narrated by Ed Asner, A Family Affair follows a middle-class family through a violent encounter and into the criminal justice system. A common attitude is that family violence is something that happens behind closed doors and is therefore exempt from moral and criminal codes. It has been shown that children raised in a violent family environment are more prone to be batterers themselves in adult relationships. Assault is a crime whether or not a victim is a family member. The social cost is too high – the consequences too far reaching – to allow family violence to continue to be a family affair.