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Sammanfattning: Violence against children indicates factors like physical, psychological, emotional or financial damage. This is also associated with the fact that children that are exposed to domestic violence, also witness violence between their parents. The concept of violence against children can be interpreted in a long or short term  and from childhood to adulthood. This perspective is associated with the perception that domestic violence affects children's health, survival development and dignity. The purpose of this study is to examine the consequences of domestic violence during their childhood. By using autobiographies it will be possible to create a greater understanding of how domestic violence is portrayed from an individual and societal perspective. This will be associated with the understanding of what consequences are created by domestic violence from the authors childhood to adulthood. Autobiographies will make it possible for the reader to get an insight into the consequences of violence from the individual himself. The issues that will be presented in the study are first, How are the consequences of violence for the child's growth during childhood  described in autobiographies and why exactly. Secondly, What support is given to children exposed to violence in social work and what difference has it made. This study also explores social work with abused children. In conjunction with the second issue of the study , we will highlight what kind of help that these individuals experienced when they needed help and what kind of difference this made for them in their adulthood.  To create an understanding for the social work with abused children, this study will highlight which interventions that are included in social work, for example call processing with foster children or even children or young people that need help to become drug free. This study's theoretical starting point has been about the attachment theory. The aim of the attachment theory was to create a greater understanding for the development of an individual at a very young age. The result of our study will be shown from an individual level of perspective. An individual level in a way where the three different authors will present their own statements and stories by their own experiences of domestic violence. The presented consequences by the impact of violence  that the authors were exposed to growing up. It shows a general result of  a stronger mindset and strive, within the authors, to build a more stable life as adults. The result of this study will also show obvious negative consequences such as mental illness, while the authors were growing up. It will also show consequences in terms of damaged social relationships, both in external relations such as friends but also in internal relations like the relationships between siblings. The authors present their stories where they show experiences of difficulties during their childhood and adolescence, struggling with their past as abused children. The results that are shown in conjunction with this studies' first question at issue are that the support measures that come from social services has not been enough in terms of help for these authors that have experienced domestic violence as children. Although, as the authors are growing up, we can state that they get stronger and somehow they have managed to use their vulnerable childhood as a momentum.