How Family Violence
Hurts Children
Children represent our greatest hope for a violence-free future. We provide counseling and a nurturing environment for children who have experienced domestic violence, enabling them to manage the conflict in their lives through adulthood. Our relationship violence education will help build a new generation that is resistant to domestic violence.

Children who witness violence in their home:

• Do not have to be hit to feel the pain.
• May also be targets of physical, sexual and/or emotional abuse.
• May end up seriously injured or killed.
• May develop physical, mental, and emotional problems.
• May grow up to become the next generation of adult abusers and victims.
• May be unsuccessful in school because of delayed language development, acting out, or withdrawal.
• May feel hopeless, isolated, afraid and confused.
• May experience low self-esteem, chronic illnesses, and/or drug and alcohol problems.

A child who
is abused or neglected:

• Is 53% more likely to be arrested by age 18.
• Is 38% more likely to be arrested as an adult.
• Is 38% more likely to be arrested for a violent crime.

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