Abuse and Children
Most abused women are very concerned about trying to protect their children from abuse. If you are living with an abusive partner, you are probably doing many things on a daily basis to keep yourself and / or your children as safe as possible.
Unfortunately, your abusive partner is making his own decisions about how to behave, and he is responsible for his violence. Whether your child is seeing or hearing abuse, or being abused directly, the impact on your child may be the same.
It is important for you to know that in Alberta, the law states that children who are exposed to family violence are considered to be at risk of abuse themselves. This means that if your partner is abusing you and there are children in the family, any citizen or professional is obliged to report this to the appropriate authorities.
