Domestic Violence: The Effects Of Domestic Abuse On Children

When a family has an abusive member, it does not just affect that person who is being abused, it hurts the children as well. The children, along with the person who is being abused could and would have a hard time forgetting the event since it was so traumatizing. As a result of the male children seeing the abuse, “ Boys who witness domestic violence in their own home are three times likely to become batters” ( “Capital Area 24 Hour”). The new generation will think that the way they are supposed to treat women or people in general, is in an abusive way. According to “ Captial Area 24 Hour Crisis”, there are students who go to school with their peers who get abused and will not tell others. Many kids are not the type to get into other peers business especially when they do not know the
If a child was home while their mother was being abused by their father then that is something they will never forget. The child does not have to be the victim in the attack to suffer from some trauma, The “Effects of Domestic Violence on Children”, informs us that the child present during the attack does not have to be physically touched to have trauma, they can suffer from emotional truma from seeing the abuse to the mother by the father frequently. Many people do not realize that the children that witness the incident are also going to be the victim in a way, because it hurts them even though they are not the ones being physically