Teenagers are involved this way:
- Seeing and hearing it
- Trying to stop the abuse
- Hitting parent or sibling
- Becoming physically abused
- Being used as a spy
- Being used as a confidante
Teenagers are affected this way:
- School and social problems
- Shamed and embarrassed
- Truancy
- Anit-social behaviours
- Tendency for early sexual encounters and beginning of relationships to escape home environment
- Taking on parental responsibilities for younger siblings
- Depression, anxiety, suicide, alcohol/drug use