Domestic Violence – Violence Against Children: Part 1
The majority of the law I practice involves helping women through difficult divorces where domestic violence is present. One of the most difficult situations to address is violence against the children present in the home, or while the children are present.
www.endabuse.org is a great website that states some of the staggering statistics on domestic violence and children. Here are a few of them:
• A study of over 6,000 American families showed that 50% of men who frequently abuse their wives also abuse their children.
• Over 50% of women who are victims of domestic violence live have children under the age of 12 living in the home where the violence occurs.
• Somewhere between 3 and 10 million children per year witness some form of domestic violence.
The bottom line is that children who live in homes with an abuser, whether they are being physically harmed or not, will suffer the consequences.
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