This paper studies how exposure to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) affects the accumulation of cognitive and socio-emotional skills of young children. We use a dynamic latent factor model and estimate the joint dynamic process of IPV exposure, parental investment, mother’s mental health and child skill development, allowing for static and dynamic complementarities between all inputs. We allow for both a direct effect of IPV —through the witnessing of abuse— and indirect effects —via changes in parental investment and mother’s mental health. We find that the negative effect of IPV manifests earlier in childhood for socio-emotional skills whereas the long term effect is more persistent for cognitive skills. When decomposing the total effect into direct and indirect effects we find that for cognitive skills the direct effects play a relatively larger role, while for socio-emotional skills the indirect effects dominate. Finally, our results suggest that while early childhood interventions that target parental investment and mother’s mental health can be effective in offsetting the immediate negative effects of IPV, in absence of follow-up the benefits will fade-out as the child ages.