2013-09-192013-09-192000http://hdl.handle.net/11212/840http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/185355.pdfViolence against women and violence against children are not isolated phenomena. Rather, such violence often co-exists in families. Data suggest that child abuse is 15 times more likely to occur in families where domestic violence is present. Children who grow up in violent homes suffer a wide range of adverse behavioral and psychological effects, including a tendency to repeat abusive behaviors, as perpetrators and victims, as they attain adulthood.pdfCo-occurrenceText