Family Violence Papers

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Alyssa Chamberlain
Bloomsburg University
Family Violence
23 November 2015

It’s a Friday night, you are tucked away in your bed sleeping when all of a sudden you hear the front door slam. Your father comes stumbling in screaming for your mother and other profanities. You hear your mother try to calm him down, and then she screams and starts crying. Your father tells her to shut up, calls her horrible names, and a loud sound, then he stumbles drunkenly to bed and forgets everything the next day, but you didn’t, this wasn’t the first time and it won’t be the last. What happens to those children that lay scared in their rooms that they might be next? Not knowing any other way, they could act the same way their mother or father
I found this article particularly interesting due to the interesting nature of the children. They knew that something bad had happened to their mother, but they could not grasp the full concept that she was never coming back. There is also evidence that shows that this prolonged exposure can lead to violence, as shown in the older siblings abusing them. For someone who has never been a victim of any kind of abuse, I cannot imagine not going to the police and turning my abuser in, but hopefully I will never have to experience what these young children did. This article truly opened my eyes to how children interpret domestic violence, although I would have hoped they explored how they were doing after the incident. Megan R. Holmes discusses Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and the effects it has on children. She starts her article by stating that one in seven men and one in four women have experienced IPV, and the households with female victims show that thirty-eight percent have children under the age of twelve living there.

References
Holmes, M. R. (2013). The sleeper effect of intimate partner violence exposure: long-term consequences on young children's aggressive behavior. Journal Of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 54(9), 986-995
Katz, C. (2014). The dead end of domestic violence: Spotlight on children’s narratives during forensic investigations following domestic homicide. Child Abuse & Neglect, 381976-1984. doi:

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