Reports of Domestic Violence & Foster Placements Drop During Pandemic: Covid-19 Masking Incidence, Experts Suspect
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...
Recent Survey on Childhood Domestic Violence in Ohio Offers Recommendations to Curb Impact
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...
The youngest victims of domestic violence are innocent children, who are often overlooked
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...
Psychology Today Points to Growing Body of Evidence Validating Dire Impact of Growing Up with Domestic Violence (CDV)
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...
Early Interventions for CDV: Supporting Brain Development
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...
How Caring Adults Can Help Buffer Childhood Toxic Stress
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...
The Most Helpless Victims of Domestic Violence are so Often Invisible
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...
CDV Compromises 4 Fundamental Needs of Children: a Recipe for Negative Consequences in Adulthood
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 guide...
This April, Let’s Talk About the Critical Link Between Child Abuse & CDV…and the Program That Can Curb Both!
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,...
ABC Station Cites Childhood Domestic Violence Association, Spotlighting Dire Impact of Childhood Domestic Violence (CDV)
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...