Children's interpretation of parental conflict determines the child's emotional response to the conflict. Children from aggressive homes tend to be more sensitized to conflict than children in less aggressive homes (Cummings et al., 2007). To date, few studies have explored the link between parental, non-verbal conflict and children under the age of seven. The purpose of the proposed hermeneutic phenomenological study is to explore individuals' lived experiences of parental, non-verbal conflict behavior during early childhood, specifically between the ages of five and seven.
