This chapter analyses the role that children played in marital violence. A large proportion of women who took their husbands to court for marital violence also complained that their husbands had physically harmed or mistreated their children. For these women, harm to their children was a source of anger and anguish, and many expressed a great deal of concern for their children’s wellbeing. This chapter also asks how children affected women’s responses to marital violence. Most of the abused wives in this study were also mothers, and thus had to confront their husbands’ violence not just as wives but also as the guardians of children. Although motherhood made women more vulnerable to abuse, it also often strengthened their resolve against violence as they sought to protect their children.