Our research was intended for finding the characteristics and condition of the scope of exposure of Slovenian secondary school students to domestic violence. The research made on the sample of 1087 secondary school students (the average age was 15.7 years) from all Slovenian regions in 2011 has shown that 40.2 % of secondary school students included in our sample are exposed to domestic violence; among them only 3 % reported domestic violence to the corresponding institution. An important obstacle for seeking help and reporting violence is the ability to recognise violence and the problem of discovering violence outside of the privacy of the family circle. Therefore the connections between different institutions: schools, social work centres, health care, the police, the prosecution and judicature are very important; rising the awareness of the entire public is also very important. An important braking factor which influences the prevention and detection and solving the problem of domestic child and adolescent abuse exposure are definitely stable cultural beliefs and family stereotypes.