Exposure to family violence is a form of family violence.
Exposure doesn’t just mean being in the room when mum and dad are yelling abuse at the other or hurting them.
It also means comforting a distraught parent or helping to clean up the mess of broken things in the house.
Kids without a safe and secure home often grow up to be reactive, high conflict people with low resilience.
That doesn’t have to be their fate even if that’s what their parents are living with.