Children Witnessing Domestic Violence: What Affects Their Well-Being Over Time?Cris Sullivan
Purpose Witnessing domestic violence is a common experience among children, but has only recently been recognized as a specific form of abuse. The purpose of this paper is to present a review of the researchers who have examined the experience of children witnessing domestic violence. Design/methodo...
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Clinical psychology Autonomic dysregulation in children of domestic violence| Impact of experiencing or witnessingand implications for future perpetration NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY Alan Rosenbaum KunkelTracii StephenThe current study investigated the relationship between childhood exposure to domestic violence, ...
. There seems little doubt that children reared in homes characterized by inter-parental violence were at greater risk of later adjustment difficulties as young adults (Fergusson & Horwood, 1998, p.11). It is quite apparent that there is a link between the witnessing of domestic violence and ...
domestic violencedomestic abusefamily violencechild protectionchild abusechild neglectimpact of violence on childrenguardian ad litemFew of us would fail to intercede if we happened upon a child being physically attacked. Most of us would shield even an unknown child from witnessing a traumatic event....
Children Affected By Domestic Violence Many children are also affected by domestic violence. This is not because they were the one who are being attack. Most of the time it is because they are witnessing what is happening to their mothers and sometimes fathers. As 15% of all children have ...
SUMMARY This article presents a review of the empirical literature on the effects of witnessing domestic violence on children's adjustment. The review includes 47 studies published in the last two decades. Although there are some inconsistent findings in early research, there is less inconsistency in...
Where children's experiences of domestic violence have been addressed, attention has focused on either children witnessing the abuse of their mother or children directly being abused. Six main ways in which children may witness domestic violence are presented and the relationship between domestic ...