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The Impact of Domestic Violence for Children
Domestic violence is a pattern of controlling and manipulative behavior aimed at subduing and gaining
complete control over a relationship. Intimate partner violence is a more specific type of domestic
violence that refers to any type of abuse in the family perpetrated by a romantic partner, including
physical, psychological, financial, and sexual abuse. Domestic violence is harmful to anybody who comes
into contact with it, but children are the ones who suffer the most. Their childhood and innocence are
taken away from them at an early age, and all they know is pain and violence because it is all they have
ever experienced throughout their most formative years. Domestic violence exposure throughout
childhood has a variety of negative consequences for a child's behavior, mental health, school
achievement, and future relationships.
When children witness, hear, or are directly involved in domestic violence, such as intervening or being
a victim physically and mentally, as well as experiencing the aftermath with their parents, they are
exposed to domestic violence (Evans, Davies, Derillo, 2008). In other words, a child may hear one of
their parents yell, witness a parent being beaten, witness an abused parent crying, or the violence may
be so motivated by rage that it finds a way to blame the children as well. In fact, 17.8 million violent
domestic acts are in the presence of children (Evans, Davies, Derillo, 2008). Many people begin having
children because they believe it will improve the relationship's outcome. It rarely stops or changes.
Typically, the violence is addressed to children. Children who grow up in a violent home with patriarchal
and anti-feminist ideas have a predetermined path to adulthood.
Domestic violence exposure during childhood has a negative impact on almost every aspect of a
person's development. For some youngsters, the mere fear of violence can be overwhelming, causing
physiological and psychological arousal that they are unable to control. It interferes with their emotional
stability, their social behavior, and every aspect of their future endeavors. Domestic violence may make
children more sensitive to stress and weaken their ability to control its effects. Difficulty regulating
emotion, in turn, is likely to increase children's risk of developing anxiety, depression, and post-
traumatic stress disorder symptoms (Grych, 2000; Scheeringa & Zeanah, 1995)
In the end, domestic violence is a pattern of controlling and manipulative behavior intended to seize
control of a relationship's power. Domestic violence exposure throughout childhood has a variety of
negative consequences for a child's behavior, mental health, school achievement, and future
relationships. In abuse victims, symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and
depression are detected more frequently than in the general population both during and after the
abuse. Domestic violence has several negative impacts to children such as physiological and
psychological that they unable to control causing their mental breakdwon.