Domestic Violence Hurts Children As Well As Adults
Gregory K. Fritz, author of the article “Domestic violence hurts children as well as adults”, has proven another point of view on the subject of domestic violence in the Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter. Gregory Fritz states that domestic violence has been around for centuries but has recently been proven that it also affects the children in the same household. With the facts of Gregory Fritz’s article we may open the eyes of the police department and anyone else involved with domestic violence and show that the ones really getting hurt are not the adults but the children and adolescents.
It is stated that domestic violence has only been a legal issue for many years. It was thought of as a personal and private thing. Polic
I think that a child witnessing violence between parents will receive that image as a thing that is right to do . Children mimic their elders and believe that they only do good. Another reason being a child may grow up being disturbed in some way due to the vison of his or her past life. Also the fact that where domestic violence occurs there’s a high percent of child mistreatment being present.
e departments and certain courts started to pay more attention to domestic violence as a serious problem. This occurred soon after the women’s movement in the 1970's. It was usually only looked at as a male against women situation in which “typically a male perpetrator and a battered woman.”(Fritz 1)
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