I'm sorry that you had to endure that, but I don't see it as being progressive. Mine ended when I was 12 years old and ran away from home for a night after getting my tail tanned for poor school. It was the first time I ever "stood up" to my dad and he had enough respect for me to realize it wasn't working as he had been raised to believe and it was the last time he ever did it.
Mine ended when my parents started to come at me with a knife and I pulled my dad's gun and told them that at least one of us was going to the hospital because I was not going to take it anymore.
2 months later I shipped out to Basic with everything I owned and never went back.