by CDVA Team | Aug 30, 2017 | Blog
“Your mind processes so differently when you can see yourself in that child or that mother…” – Gayan Pert. Gayan Pert, ED of Bethany house, grew up with CDV in her childhood home in Jamaica. She now operates a shelter for families much like her own....
by CDVA Team | Aug 24, 2017 | Blog
I think what…affected me for my adult life that happened in my childhood was more the everyday When actress Charlize Theron was 15, her mother shot and killed her abusive alcoholic father. But what affected her most was living daily under the strain of both these...
by CDVA Team | Aug 17, 2017 | Blog
The ACE Study found that the higher someone’s ACE score – the more types of childhood adversity a person experienced, the higher their risk of chronic disease, mental illness, violence, being a victim of violence and a bunch of other consequences. There is a strong...
by CDVA Team | Jul 28, 2017 | Blog
Author Kristine Fredheim writes a personal account of the pain brought on by her parents’ violence towards each other. After experiencing them abuse each other physically and verbally for years,Kristine inherited some of their behaviors. According to leading...
by CDVA Team | Jul 24, 2017 | Blog
“Like many adult children of domestic violence, I’m doing the necessary work of change, and I’m moving forward.” Similarly to an estimated 15 million children and 40+ million adults who were these children, Jan Downing grew up around a lot of...
