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