Did your parents beat you as a child? How is your relationship now?

Taken from a reddit question asked yesterday.

Long story short:

My father is a physically abusive ass**** that is also a part-time alcoholic on the weekends. He used to beat me, but now that I’m older he just verbally abuses me. He stopped beating me around 13 years of age (as I was going through puberty). I’m a female and he decided that it was just time to abuse me with words instead of his body. My brother is now 14, and in high school. He is going through puberty also, but my father doesn’t seem to care. He still abuses him (physically and verbally).
For example, this morning he beat him with a shoe for not handing him the remote control fast enough. My father is a big man (5’10, 215 pounds). My mother, on the other hand, refuses to leave him and always gives him excuses for the way he treats our family. “He regrets it” or “he really loves you guys”, she will say. He beats her too from time to time. I really resent her for not divorcing him. I feel like if she loved her kids enough, we would have been out of here 10–12 years ago.

Once I move out, I imagine that I will never talk to my father again. I haven’t discussed the extensive nature of his abuse on here, but it has gone far enough to where I will not shed a tear at his funeral.

So I ask you, jellies, were you beaten as a child/teen? Are you on speaking terms with your parents? Why or why not?