by CDVA Team | Jun 24, 2024 | CDV In The News
“It was very unpredictable, we didn’t know what to expect…I believe my mom stayed because she wanted to make it work.” – Chelsea Waldroup“When my parents would fight, to me that was normal because I didn’t know what a normal parent was at the time.” – Emily...
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 | Aug 17, 2016 | Blog
By Cris Chocolat, Guest Blogger, Entrepreneur, Artist, and AdvocateWe all go through moments in our lives when we feel like giving up. It is in those moments when a recurring memory comes to me, a vision of my mother sewing my kindergarten graduation dress at 2am with...
by CDVA Team | Jun 2, 2016 | Blog
By Marcus Laster, Guest Blogger “I’m going to escape.” “I’m going to be somebody.”I whispered these words as a boy while clutching my ears and squeezing my eyes shut in an attempt to drown out the noise and wish away the present. In the room next to me, I heard...
by CDVA Team | Apr 7, 2015 | Blog
By Brian F. MartinThe GUILT and shame we carry after experiencing adversities in childhood can have numerous layers. To help you begin to unravel those layers, I want to share with you the inspirational story of British actor Martin Rayner that I documented in my...
