Jane Keji Joseph2026-09-022026-09-022026-06-01https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12311/3595UndergraduateThe presence of domestic violence within the family may cause many mental issues among kids in the future. There are many studies indicating that domestic violence affects children's lives by increasing their risks of developing various mental diseases. For example, some research has shown that children who were victims of domestic violence are more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression than other children. Nevertheless, not all of the kids subjected to violence have bad consequences. The current paper is focused on reviewing the literature related to the different types of violence that children experience and the impact of domestic violence on the mental health of children. It is no doubt an upsetting experience for the children whose families suffer from domestic violence, which is a traumatic and ongoing experience. These experiences can accumulate through time and affect all aspects of life, including health and wellbeing of children. According to parent report, almost 4% of children had been witnesses of severe domestic violence. The factors related to greater likelihood of child witnesses of domestic violence were older age, mixed ethnicity, physical disorders, more than one child in the family, divorced parents, renting the house, living in poor neighborhoods, mother's emotional status, and dysfunctional family Being witnesses of domestic violence does not automatically imply that they observe violence happening because many of them relate events that they may have heard but notenDissertation