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Being abused as a child comes with detrimental long and short-term effects, and they can range anywhere from mental health issues and even repeating the abusive cycle with future children or partners. “These children are at greater risk for repeating the cycle as adults by entering into abusive relationships or becoming abusers themselves. For example, a boy who sees his mother being abused is 10 times more likely to abuse his female partner as an adult. A girl who grows up in a home where her father abuses her mother is more than six times as likely to be sexually abused as a girl who grows up in a non-abusive home.” (Women's Health, Effects of domestic violence on children) These long-term effects are scary, and if a child isn’t saved from these situations they will grow up learning how to hurt people or become victimized in different crimes.

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Children in preschool: Young children who witness intimate partner violence may start doing things they used to do when they were younger, such as bed-wetting, thumb-sucking, increased crying, and whining. They may also develop difficulty falling or staying asleep; show signs of terror, such as stuttering or hiding; and show signs of severe separation anxiety.
School-aged children: Children in this age range may feel guilty about the abuse and blame themselves for it. Domestic violence and abuse hurt children’s self-esteem. They may not participate in school activities or get good grades, have fewer friends than others, and get into trouble more often. They also may have a lot of headaches and stomachaches.
Teens: Teens who witness abuse may act out in negative ways, such as fighting with family members or skipping school. They may also engage in risky behaviours, such as having unprotected sex and using alcohol or drugs. They may have low self-esteem and have trouble making friends. They may start fights or bully others and are more likely to

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In 2014, female children and youth were more likely to be victims of police-reported family violence than their male counterparts (274.4 per 100,000 population under 18 years of age and 189.7 per 100,000 population under 18, respectively).
Risk of being a victim of family-related violence was highest at age 15 for both male (247.5 per 100,000 population) and female youth (534.6). However, females between the ages of 14 and 17 were twice as likely to be victimized as their male counterparts. Physical assault was the most common type of police-reported family violence against children and youth (134.4 per 100,000 population under age 18), followed by sexual offences (73.9). While rates of physical assault against children and youth perpetrated by a family member were similar for males and females, rates of sexual assault against female children and youth were more than 4 times higher than their male counterparts.

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Family-related homicide is the one notable exception to these age-specific patterns in rates of violent crime. Based on ten-year data from the Homicide Survey, infants and young children were most vulnerable to family homicide. This risk of familial homicide subsides with the child's age and increases again, though to a lesser degree, in late adolescence. For instance, there were 27 homicides for every million infants under one, compared to a rate of 9 per million children aged 1 to 3, 2 per million children aged 7 to 12, and 3 per million adolescents aged 13 to 17. Over this same ten year period, the vast majority of homicides of infants and toddlers were committed by parents (98% of family homicides against infants under one, and 90% of family homicides of children aged 1 to 3 years)

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While younger children were more frequently victimized in 2010 by a family member than any other perpetrator, their rates of police-reported family violence remained lower than those of older children and youth. This is consistent with previous findings indicating that older children and youth have higher rates, of family violence, peaked during the adolescent years of 14 to 17, where age-specific rates held steady at around 440 victims per 100,000 population.

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Domestic violence against a child, or to put in simpler terms, child abuse is the “physical, psychological, social, emotional or sexual mistreatment of a child.” (The effects of family violence on children,  Royal Canadian Mounted Police.) Child abuse can and will cause psychological issues later on in life, and sometimes even death.

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Early Detection of Child Abuse and Neglect 

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Early Detection of Child Abuse and Neglect 

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Early Detection of Child Abuse and Neglect Training

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Child Abuse, different types and who's at risk..

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Child Abuse, different types and who's at risk..

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Reaching Out: Child abuse, the different types and who's at risk.

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An abused child is more likely to end up in a violent or abusive relationships as adults, In some cases of physical and sexual abuse, the victims have considerable problems with behaviour, negative peer involvement, depression, anxiety, violence to others, developmental delays, irregular school attendance and inappropriate sexual behaviour.

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Children rarely mistake it or lie about it. The majority of physical abuse cases involve inappropriate punishment, meaning that the other cases of physical abuse are more severe. The most common form of sexual abuse involves touching the child's genitals, but some of the cases involve attempted or completed sexual intercourse. In many substantiated abuse cases, the alleged perpetrators are family members or other relatives. Most physical abuse is committed by fathers and mothers, but sexual abuse is usually committed by other relatives or non-relatives. Parents who abuse their children often come from harsh backgrounds themselves, including child abuse. They often lack a support system and have little idea of positive parenting. The family often functions poorly in terms of problem-solving, communication and behaviour control. Often, where there is intimate partner violence, there is also child abuse. Exposure to family violence is the most common form of emotional abuse of children.

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Reaching Out: Child abuse, when and how to report.

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Three in five children and youth victims of family violence were victimized by a parent. 31% were victims of family violence by a parent, sibling, extended family member or spouse. 61% were victimized by parents.