Preventing Domestic Violence Starts with Protecting 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...
Why Children Who Witness Domestic Violence Need Faster Access to Support In a heartbreaking 2014 article by Melissa Collins, *The Connecticut Mirror* highlighted the hidden victims of domestic violence: the children who witness abuse firsthand. These children often...
Did You Or Someone You Care About Grow Up Living With Domestic Violence? If you did, you experienced childhood domestic violence, or CDV. You may also know someone who did. By definition, from a childhood standpoint, domestic violence is violence between parents or...
Childhood Domestic Violence Teaches Us the Lie of Guilt 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...
“Healing from childhood domestic violence is difficult, but it isn’t impossible. Luke 1:37 says, “For nothing will be impossible with God” and I believe that’s true.”My name is Caroline Abbott, and I experienced emotional and verbal domestic violence as a child. I was...
In the Spotlight – Caroline Abbott Community Advocate Author, blogger www.carolineabbott.com Caroline Abbott Found Success after Living through Childhood Domestic Violence Caroline Abbott is a former child of domestic violence who is now a self-published writer,...
We Can Find Others Who Grew Up with Domestic Violence Anywhere Last week, I was hosting a dinner party at a restaurant. As we were getting settled at the table, I saw the server and stood up to introduce myself. My mother was a waitress for her entire life, and I...
Half of the Children who Grew Up in a Home with Domestic Violence Experienced Physical Child Abuse According to research, if you grow up living with domestic violence, there is a 50% chance you also experienced physical child abuse. Sometimes Nothing is Ever Enough...
Childhood Domestic Violence Doesn’t Have to Define Our Lives Growing up with childhood domestic violence teaches us to believe a set of LIES about ourselves. These lies tell us we’re worthless, fearful, angry, alone, guilty, sad, hopeless, resentful,...
“Resentment is the poison you drink hoping to hurt your enemy.” –Nelson Mandela The Pain of Our Parents Fighting in Childhood Can Follow Us into Adulthood Holding on to the injustice done to you as a child can cause you even more pain today, as resentment...
