These conditions are chronic and recurrent and require long-term intervention and support to alleviate. Child abuse is 15 times more likely to occur in households where adult domestic violence is also present. Children look , learn , listen , and repeat . The health, behavioral, and social consequences of domestic violence are enormous. There is a strong correlation between homeless youth or teenage pregnancy and growing up in an abusive household.
Constant stress affects development of the brain.
Just as love imprints itself on a child's brain, so does abuse. Alaska has 6 times the national average of reported child sexual assault. 1 in 4 girls before the age of 12 and 1 in 6 boys before the age of 18 nationally will be sexually assaulted. As many as 4 out of 5 offenders were sexually assaulted as children. One-third of incest victims' mothers were sexually abused as children.