Childhood Domestic Violence can impact your health and body
Shared from Roger Lockridge blogBy Roger Lockridge and Brian F. Martin Growing up living with domestic violence impacts a life in many ways. However, some are surprised to learn that it has an impact on ones physical health and body.One study alone found that it...
Join the Movement to Building Awareness, Understanding, And Sharing About Childhood Domestic Violence
We at CDV-Children of Domestic Violence have been growing steadily and have made some major strides over the past year that we’re eager to share.If you grew up living with domestic violence or care about someone who did, you don’t have to continuing living with the...
A Simple Thought That Will Help You Overcome Anything If You Grew Up Living With Domestic Violence
If you grew up in a home with domestic violence, your basic needs were not met – the need to feel safe, to feel loved, and to feel important. You felt a pain that is unique to those who, at the most vulnerable point in their lives, have seen the people they love hurt...
What Unknown Special Skill Do Those who Experience Childhood Domestic Violence Have Access To?
“I understand that I cannot control the thoughts and actions of others. But I can exercise the ultimate control – control over the meaning of any situation – control over myself. When I am in control of my thoughts and my feelings and my actions, nothing is more...
INVINCIBLE – The First Book to Speak Directly to Those Who Grew Up Living With Domestic Violence – Launches September 30th!
Did you grow up living with domestic violence or care about someone who did?We’re excited to announce the publications of our soon-to-be released book, INVINCIBLE: The 10 Lies You Learn Growing Up with Domestic Violence and the Truths To Set You Free. Written by CDV’s...
Prevent violence in our homes; protect our youngest victims
The Charleston Gazette gives an excellent summary of the problem of CDV. Repeated exposure to domestic violence in the home results in long term psychological and physical health challenges, along with difficulties in relationships and in professional settings as...
Preventing domestic violence must begin with the children
Founder Brian F. Martin wrote an article for The Hill with Rep. John Conyers Jr. about Childhood Domestic Violence, and its effect on American society. Shockingly, 90 percent of prison inmates report that they experienced domestic violence as children. This epidemic...
Children of domestic violence: Daddy Shooted Mommy
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3 Common LIES Adults Believe When They Experienced CDV-Childhood Domestic Violence
Did You Or Someone You Care About Grow Up Living With Domestic Violence?If you did, you experienced childhood domestic violence, or CDV. By definition, from a childhood standpoint domestic violence is violence between parents or violence towards a parent violence can...
I Experienced Childhood Domestic Violence, CDV and Went From Feeling Guilty to Free
Children think emotionally, not rationally. When you were exposed to domestic violence as a child, your brain drew the wrong conclusions: “I couldn’t stop it, but I should have.” “I was there, so it must have been my fault. It happened because of me.” This creates a...