
Children and Domestic Violence: How Does Domestic Violence Affect Children?
Provides parents with information on how to talk to children about domestic violence. This fact sheet discusses how domestic violence can affect children.
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Provides parents with information on how to talk to children about domestic violence. This fact sheet discusses how domestic violence can affect children.

Provides parents with information on how to talk to children about domestic violence. This fact sheet discusses how to keep children safe and respond to their fears.

Provides parents with information on how to talk to children about domestic violence. This fact sheet discusses the importance of listening and talking to children about domestic violence.

Provides parents information on how to talk to children about domestic violence. This fact sheet discusses how to manage challenging behavior in children living in domestic violence situations.

Provides parents with information on how to talk to children about domestic violence. This fact sheet discusses the importance of playing with children exposed to domestic violence.

Provides parents with information on how to talk to children about domestic violence. This fact sheet discusses where parents can turn if they are worried about their child.
Discusses sexual assault that occurs within the context of ongoing relationships and those that occur in a one-time interaction (e.g., at a party, among casual acquaintances, friends who are not in an ongoing intimate/romantic relationship).

Highlights Elizabeth Thompson, Director of The Family Center at Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, and her peak professional experience with the NCTSN.

Illustrates how a parent can provide solace and support to a child after the death of a loved one.

Provides information to parents and caregivers about keeping children safe online. This fact sheet describes why sexting is not smart and how sexts can be used to hurt or bully.

Discusses the key causes, major consequences, and professional responses related to community violence and its traumatic stress-related impacts on youth.

Details child maltreatment in military families. This fact sheet provides a look at child maltreatment in the military and offers providers the key concepts, findings, and interventions that will support them in their approach to the care of today's military family.