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Children and Domestic Violence
All Children
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Between 3.3 million and 25 million children experience domestic violence in their homes each year.
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Children who live in homes where their mothers are battered are 50% more likely to be beaten themselves.
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Children from homes where their mothers is beaten suffer eating and sleeping disorders, have headaches, ulcers, rashes, depression, and anxiety caused by the trauma of witnessing abuse.
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They have a higher risk of abusing substances and becoming juvenile delinquents.
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Eighty percent of teen runaways and homeless youth come from violent homes.
Girls
- Girls from homes with domestic violence are 6.5 times more likely to be sexually assaulted and more likely to become pregnant as teenagers.
Boys
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A boy from a home where his mother is battered is 74% more likely to commit violence, including rape.
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Boys who grow up in non-violent homes have one chance in 400 of becoming abusive adults, but boys who grow up in violent homes have one chance in two of becoming abusive adults.
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Sixty-three percent of boys ages 11-20 arrested for homicide have killed their mother's abuser.
If you would like more information about A Safe Place, please call us at 847-731-7165 or email us at info@asafeplaceforhelp.org. |
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A Safe Place provides individual and group counseling to child witnesses of domestic violence in both the residential and nonresidential programs.
The 24-hour HELP LINE, 847-249-4450; TTY 847-249-6557, can provide assistance in accessing services.
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