Using a grounded theory qualitative research, this study explores children with strategies that help them cope with abusive home environments, which is also known as a major life stressor. Within three interviews, group of adolescents and child care professionals were asked about what were their views in regards to what is a protective factors of resilience. In addition to those interviews, protective factors were then categorized and furthered the five themes that expressed strategies of effectiveness of skills that were used by adolescents who abused as children. These five themes are: loyalty to parents, normalizing of the abusive environment, establishing a sense of safety through a perception of invisibility to the abuser, self-value,
