When you grow up living with domestic violence, you experience
Childhood Domestic Violence
Childhood Domestic Violence (CDV) is
when a person grows up living in a home with violence between their parents or violence towards a parent.
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1
BillionGlobally experience CDV -
1 in 7
An estimated 1 in 7
experience CDV -
less than
15%Current awareness
of this issue
The impact is profound.
While they may leave behind the violence of their childhood, they’re unable to live the lives they want to lead today.
– Dr. Renee McDonald
Leading CDV expert
CDV does not happen in isolation.
If you experienced CDV, you most likely experienced one or more other major childhood adversities in your childhood home:
- Physical child abuse
- Sexual abuse
- Emotional abuse
- Physical neglect
- Emotional neglect
- Divorced parents
- Parental alcohol or drug abuse
- Mentally ill parent
- Incarceration of a parent
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