Children and Domestic Violence

“Families under stress produce children under stress. Children under stress who do not receive help become adults under stress.” - Robert Ackerman   When we talk about domestic violence at all, we tend to talk about it in terms of adult relationships—of spouses, of partners, of women and men. We too often overlook the effects—short- and long-term—that domestic violence has on children: 1 in 15 children are exposed to domestic violence every year. 90 percent of these children are eyewitnesses to the abuse. 40 percent of child abuse victims also report being exposed to domestic violence. In 2013, most victim callers to Chicago’s Domestic...