Domestic violence is a prevalent problem in today?s society. While it is easy to see what impact it has on the actual victim, it is oftentimes difficult to see the effect it has on children witnessing these acts of violence. Research done in the field of domestic violence suggests that children (under the age of 19) exposed to domestic violence grow up to either become abusers or to become victims of spousal abuse.
The researcher will be studying domestic violence because she wants to know if (and how) exposure to domestic violence as a child leads to that child being an abuser as an adult. This is an important study because if the implications of the exposure to domestic violence can be understood, programs can be implemented to reduce and maybe even eliminate the cycle of violence.
While most research covers children who were actually abused themselves and the implications of that abuse, this study will look at the effects that exposure to domestic violence has.
Grandville : Cent Proverbes
Domestic violence in Spain 1998-2007
City of Fresno domestic violence statistics.The researcher wants to look at how seeing the violence, while not actually being the victim of violence, affects that child as they grow up and have their own relationships. Interviews with perpetrators of domestic violence would be beneficial to studying domestic violence and the cycle of violence as it would give a broad understanding of what people went through in their childhood, thus showing potential risk factors for becoming a domestic violence perpetrator.
As Rosenbaum and Leisring state, ?It is now reasonably safe to conclude that exposure to interparental aggression, even if not directly viewed, contributes to a host of emotional and behavioral problems in children, and increases the risk of perpetration (battering), especially for males, in their adult intimate relationships? (2003: 7).
In order to develop domestic violence prevention programs, risk factors...