The Impact of Abuse on Children
Children are impacted by abuse in a variety of ways. There are many ways you can (and likely already are) supporting your children to feel safe.
Sometimes the impact is caused by the stress of abuse. Other times, the impact is actually the child coping. They may be trying to keep you or other children safe or trying to stop the abuse from happening to himself or herself. Some examples of the impact of abuse are:
- Learning disabilities
- Behavioural issues such as ADD, ADHD
- Health problems such as chronic colds or rashes
- Depression, anxiety or other mental illness
- Desire to be perfect
- “Bad” behaviour
- Drug or alcohol use
- Missing school
