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Materials and How to Order Child Abuse, Neglect and Domestic
Violence Children who grow up in a violent home tend to
experience: - There is a significant overlap between abuse of
women and children. One study estimated that 30-40 percent of
women who are abused have children who are abused. - Domestic
violence is the single major precursor to child deaths in the
U.S. It is estimated that 70% of cases in which an abused child
dies, their mother has been the victim of domestic violence. -
It is believed that child abuse is 15 times more likely when
there is domestic violence in the home. - When child abuse is
substantiated, 42% of those children lived in homes where there
was domestic violence. - Living in an abusive home puts children
in greater risk of being hurt as they may: - be the target of
displaced anger or frustration o