Is my child going to resent me for keeping them away from their dad?

[NeedingASafeSpace]

My child’s father is highly absuive. I have offered all possible ways (bar mediation) of being civil and arranging contact and he will not agree. He has threatened me, since, that if I dictate the days he will do XYZ. All sorts of violence.
enough was enough I decided to resort to offering court action and keeping contact to none until there was a court order in place. This has been ongoing for YEARS. I won’t take it any longer.
I do, however, worry my child will resent me for this decision. While I know it is his dad’s choice to use court for contact or not, I somehow feel he will never take those steps. Am I wrong? I do have safeguarding concerns of course otherwise i wouldn’t resort to this. Although I know I am right to stop the contact I wonder is my child going to hate me when they’re older.

Abusive fathers are not good fathers and will only damage children. You can only explain this to your child when he gets older. Don’t be hard on yourself or blame yourself for his father’s behaviour and the fact he hasn’t had contact.
it will be for the greater good. If your child never knew his father it’s unlikely he will want to know him until he’s older in which case you will explain he’s not a good person

I feel I’m at a crucial point of a huge decision for my child’s future. This is the bigggest decision I think I have ever made. With someone else’s life. I hope when he’s older he understands.

My mum managed it so that I only ever had supervised contact with my dad (by her, he would visit for lunch for instance at our house) and no overnights ever. It was the best possible decision for me. My mum got a lot of things wrong as a parent, but that’s one thing she managed to get right and I’m grateful.