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Survivor Story: A Son Saves His Mother’s Life

Submitted By: Jovan, Survivor Domestic violence affects millions of women, men, and children each year. For military families dealing with abuse, there are unique obstacles and stressors generally not faced by civilian families. In addition to service members struggling with the stress of deployment, frequent moves, combat assignments, and work-related issues, many military families also […]

Survivor Story: Creating Art is Helping Me Heal from Childhood Domestic Violence

Written by: Aron, Survivor Domestic violence rarely, if ever, only affects the person experiencing it firsthand. Various studies conducted estimate between 3.3 million and 15 million children witness physical violence at home. Witnessing abuse – regardless of whether or not it ever turns physical – has lifelong consequences for the children exposed to it. Survivor […]

PTSD in Children

By Jenn Rockefeller Has your child ever experienced something so horrible or scary that it gave them nightmares? Has your child ever avoided anything that reminded them of the experience? Does your child feel detached from others around them? If you answered yes to those questions, your child might have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). […]

Survivor Story: I Grew Up Thinking It Was Normal for a Mother to Be Abused

Written by: BTSADV Survivor I will be 21 in 2019, a strange age so attached to maturity, but that’s a word I don’t think I’ll ever be able to relate to.  My earliest memory of childhood in New Zealand as a second-generation Iranian refugee is of my father pushing my mother down the stairs over […]

Survivor Story: I Grew Up Witnessing Domestic Violence

Written by: BTSADV Survivor I am the child of a domestic violence survivor. Growing up, I saw a lot of things that children should not have to. I witnessed verbal abuse, threats, physical violence to my mother, and so much more. I was embarrassed by this for so long and didn’t have the strength to […]

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