Consequences of Childhood Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence

摘要

There is no dearth of literature on the subject of deleterious consequences of partner violence on children. While claims that children are the forgotten victims of domestic violence may have been true once, these statements can no longer bemade by a dispassionate and informed observer. In the last ten years, there has been a veritable explosion of research on the impact on children of exposure to partner violence. The range of child outcomes examined has also been extremely broad. Thus, research on the effects of exposure to intimate partner violence on children is not new in terms of studying a hitherto ignored subject, nor is it likely to be unique in terms of the types of effects examined.