Children Learn What They Live

Children learn from what they see and hear. Their early experiences have a powerful impact on:

• how they see their world
• how they grow
• and who they will become

Living in a home where there is violence affects the growing child in many ways. A child who sees or hears violence in his/her home often has emotional, physical and social difficulties in childhood and later life.

Protecting your children from violence, now, can protect them from lifelong problems.

 

 

Children do not have to see the violence to be affected by it.                            Research suggests that up to 90% of children living in violent homes are aware of the abuse. 1

                                                                                 1. Source: Sudermann & Jaffe, 1998

 

 

Family Violence Hurts Children

 

There are serious effects on children who experience family violence.  Children who are exposed to an abusive relationship between their parents or other caregivers: