DV & Children FACTS!
- Children who live in a household with violence often show psychological problems from an early age, such as avoidance, hypervigilance to threats, and dysregulated aggression
- Fifty percent (50%) of men who frequently abuse their wives also frequently abuse their children.
- A child who lives in a family where there is violence between parents is 15 times more likely to be abused.
- Men who have witnessed violence between parents are three times more likely to abuse their own wives and children.
- The sons of the most violent parents are 1000 times more likely to become batterers.
- Children who live in a household with violence often show psychological problems from an early age, such as avoidance, hypervigilance to threats, and dysregulated aggression
- Fifty percent (50%) of men who frequently abuse their wives also frequently abuse their children.
- A child who lives in a family where there is violence between parents is 15 times more likely to be abused.
- Men who have witnessed violence between parents are three times more likely to abuse their own wives and children.
- The sons of the most violent parents are 1000 times more likely to become batterers.