Ramsay: No one should suffer abuse like my mum 
By Gordon Ramsay
Special to CNN
Editor's note: A renowned chef and restaurateur, Scottish-born Gordon Ramsay is perhaps best known in the United States for his television show "Hell's Kitchen." He writes here about witnessing domestic abuse as a child and what he's doing now to make sure others don't witness the same. He will appear on "Larry King Live" tonight at 9 ET.
Chef Gordon Ramsay writes of seeing his father abuse his mother; today Ramsay fights domestic abuse.
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- No child should ever have to live in fear in their own home. A home should be a place where you feel safe and loved; when I was a kid, our home was anything but that.
Growing up, my father was less than a perfect role model. I watched how he battled alcoholism and how he became terribly violent with my mum, to the point where she feared for her life. Every time he got violent, any present that my brother, sisters, or I had given mum would be smashed, simply because he knew it belonged to her. There were instances when the police were called to take him away; mum was taken to the hospital while we kids were taken to a children's home.
As kids, my brother, sisters and I moved around to more homes and schools than I can remember. Dad would often have a fallout with someone at work and get fired, and because our home often came with his job, we would become homeless and have to move again.
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