Definitions by Nina Kavatsyuk

Extended definition
Domestic violence is defined as the actions of the adults towards their intimate partners with the aim to intimidate, humiliate or frighten them. Domestic violence typically involves repetitive behavior, including different types of abuse – physical assault, psychological, emotional and economical abuse. The perpetrators are systematically violent toward their intimate partners usually to maintain power and control over them. Domestic violence results in psychological, social and economical problems of the victims and the children exposed to it. According to the number of researches, this type of violence occurs in all age, racial, socioeconomic, educational, occupational and religious groups.
[1] Evans S. Ways of Knowing About Domestic Violence: A critical review and discussion of the literature.– Aviable from: <http://menshealth.uws.edu.au/documents/Ways%20of%20knowing%20in%20DV%20SusanEvans%2003.doc>

Sentence definition
Children exposed to domestic violence are defined as the children seeing, hearing or being aware of violence against one parent that is abused by the other parent.