Impact on Children

Children, Violence and Trauma

Through Our Eyes: Children, Violence, and Trauma This video discusses how violence and trauma affect children, including the serious and long-lasting consequences for their physical and mental health; signs that a child may be exposed...

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Impact on Children

Exposure to Domestic Violence and its impact on children has been associated with a variety of problems in their development including: Emotional problems: crying, anxiety and sadness; repressed feelings of fear, anger, guilt and confusion…

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A Child’s Experience

Children can experience Domestic Violence in different ways: They can get be harmed directly or may get caught between a fight or by trying to protect the victim of abuse (like their mother, sibling or…

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Aboriginal Experience

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are significantly over-represented in statistics of domestic and family violence victimisation. Because of the large amount of violence that is perpetrated against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, their children are exposed...

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Exposure to Violence and Children’s Brain Development

Children's brain development suffer greatly from repeated exposure to violence. Neuroscientists working in the area of brain research have identified the first three to four years in a child's life as being crucially important. During...

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Monsters In the Closet – Domestic Violence From a Child’s View

Produced by The Verizon Foundation with support from National Domestic Violence Hotline (USA). The animated animated video, "MONSTERS", sheds light on the effects of Domestic Violence in the home, through the innocent eyes of a...

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Trauma and Children

Repeated exposure to violence can result in the development of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in young children. PTSD is a stress disorder which can develop in children as a result of directly experiencing, witnessing or…

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Childhood Experience with Domestic Violence Research

Researchers from the University of Virginia’s School of Nursing, share their findings on how traumatic violence in a home can impact children years later. Barbara Parker and Richard Steeves, researchers from the University of Virginia’s School of Nursing, share their findings on how traumatic violence in a home can impact children years later.

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Through Their Eyes

This short film is part of a project from the Crisis Center of Northern New Mexico that educates and informs families about the short and long term effects on of domestic violence on children and...

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