by CDVA Team | Feb 26, 2021 | Blog
How CDV Impacts Home and School Life Kids who experience childhood domestic violence and other adversities at home often prefer school to being at home, and many join various extracurricular activities to delay the inevitable even longer. Adrian Tucker, now an...
by CDVA Team | Feb 4, 2021 | Blog
Young Children Often Most Impacted by Exposure to Domestic Violence According to the CDC, each year more than 6% of all children in the US are exposed to domestic violence. And strikingly, among the most affected by are the youngest. In 2020, Case Western Reserve...
by CDVA Team | Oct 3, 2019 | Blog
This tragic story depicts the devastating culmination of a domestic violence incident and the extensive history of it in the household that led to the death of a 17-year old boy attempting to protect his mother. The consequences of such events are devastating...
by CDVA Team | Jul 25, 2019 | Blog
The Profound Impact of Growing Up With Domestic Violence In this article in Psychology Today, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Blake Griffin Edwards paints a vivid picture of how domestic violence impacts the “unintended victims” – the children in these...
by CDVA Team | Jul 12, 2019 | Blog
Early Intervention Can be Life-changing for Children with ACEs According to research from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, the first three to five years of a child’s life are critical for fostering their healthy development. This is...
by CDVA Team | Jun 21, 2019 | Blog
What Is Toxic Stress from Childhood Adversity? Toxic stress happens when a child faces serious adversity without enough support to help them cope. This could include things like witnessing domestic violence, living with constant conflict, or dealing with emotional...
by CDVA Team | Jun 13, 2019 | Blog
For Children, Domestic Violence Lasts a Lifetime In many cases of Domestic Violence, children are more often than not overlooked as victims because they were not the direct target of the violence. But, according to decades of evidence, they’re equally impacted by...
by CDVA Team | May 16, 2019 | Blog
The most vulnerable point in any person’s life is their childhood. As a child, one is physically weaker and smaller than the adults around them as well as more vulnerable to outside influences – good and bad alike. For this reason, strong caring adults must help...
by CDVA Team | Mar 31, 2019 | Blog
I was talking with a woman I met on a flight last year and my work in the space of Childhood Domestic Violence (CDV) came up. She told me, “That’s a great cause. Child abuse is a big problem, and those children need more people to help them.” I explained that, yes,...
by CDVA Team | Feb 25, 2019 | Blog
Citing the Childhood Domestic Violence Association, an ABC station recently ran a segment outlining the profound impact that Childhood Domestic Violence (CDV) has on those who experience it. Why is it so important to talk about CDV? Because awareness itself is...
