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The project aims to improve services as well as knowledge and understanding of the impact of domestic violence on children and thus the entire intergenerational transmission of gender-based and domestic violence, as well as to expand and improve the quality of counselling and therapeutic services provided to women experiencing violence and their children. Modern human rights approaches consider children living in violent couples to be victims, even if the children are not directly physically abused. Parent-family dynamics greatly influence the development and lives of young people. Young people exposed to violence during their formative years - from childhood to young adulthood - learn the powerful lesson that violence can be an effective tool of control in relationships. These facts reflect a "cycle of violence" or "intergenerational transmission of violence" in which children imitate and repeat their parents'' behaviour, contributing to the transmission of violence from one generation to the next. Interventions that break this cycle are crucial to prevent further violent behaviour. The project addresses these problems through the tree pillars of prevention, education and intervention.