Citation

Humphreys C, Bradbury-Jones C. Child Abuse Rev. 2015; 24(4): 231-234.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/car.2410

PMID

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Abstract

Safeguarding children and young people living with domestic abuse has emerged as a priority area across health, justice and human service sectors. It is now recognised as a significant health and social issue and one that has serious, long-term consequences for both adult and child victims. One in five children in the UK and one in four in Australia have experienced domestic violence by 18 years of age (Indermaur, 2001; Radford et al., 2011). At a global level, a ten-country study reported that between 15 and 71 per cent of women had experienced physical or sexual violence by their husband or partner (World Health Organization, 2009). Children's experiences range from directly experiencing child abuse themselves, being hurt when intervening, to witnessing the violence or hearing events from afar. Their childhood may be marred by growing up in an atmosphere of fear (Stanley, 2011), where there is threatened stability within the home and undermining of relationships between mothers, fathers and children (Laing et al., 2013)...

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