This study aims at providing information for exploring an intervention plan for the children of battered women\'s shelters. In this study, through face-to-face interviews, conditions of child services in shelters, state of wife battering with the children exposed, children\'s problem behaviors, difficulties in shelter living, self-esteem, and perceptions/reactions toward wife battering are examined.
As a result, the children in shelters exhibit serious problem behaviors, various difficulties in shelter living, low self-esteem, and distorted perceptions and inappropriate reactions toward wife battering. It is concluded that the children in shelters who are exposed to wife battering have various problems along very different problem areas. However, the state of the shelter\'s child service is extremely poor, so a systematic intervention plan for these children should be developed immediately.
The study suggests an intervention plan for the children in battered women\'s shelters which includes an individual therapy provided by professional child therapists for the children who show serious clinical problems, a group program dealing with the problems many children have in common, and the intervention for parents such as parent education and family therapy.