Emerging Issues

Domestic Violence is also known as intimate partner violence. Intimate partner violence is defined as violence committed within an adult intimate relationship, regardless of gender, and generally is part of an ongoing complex pattern of violent behavior (Gosselin, 47).

There is a very interesting scholarly article Prevalence of Children Witnessing Parental Violence, which discusses the affects of intimate partner violence on children who witness it.

This scholarly article is a study of children who witness domestic violence among their parents and how it affects their emotional health. The article focuses mainly on depression. There was a study conducted that examined 150 children throughout churches, schools, and social organizations in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The results showed that 32% of the children had witnessed parental violence in the past year. Among the 32% who had witnessed domestic violence, 25% were identified as having depression. This study gives helpful advice to both parents and psychologists (Nguyen, 2012).

You can also find this article here

 Intimate Partner Violence and its effects on children

Intimate Partner violence involves degrading remarks, cruel jokes, economic exploitation, punches, kicks, false imprisonment, sexual abuse, suffocating, maiming assaults, and homicide (Gosselin, 48)

Remember that intimate partner violence affects children as well even though they are not directly abused.