School Problems Children want to stay home, because they think they can control the abuse. This results in truancy, poor attention span, grade failing and dropping out. Depression Children feel overwhelmed by their inability to stop abuse, and in some cases children are suicidal. In babies, this takes the form of failure to thrive. Speech Disorders Children develop speech disorders as a result of stress.
Children are accident prone.
Children may wet the bed. Physical Abuse Children are often themselves victims of abuse. When They Grow Older Children who experience violence at home, often turn this violence out on the community. A high percentage of juvenile delinquents are battered children. Eight percent of men in prisons grew up in violent homes.