All children from families of domestic violence have a strong desire to have the violence stop. When it does not stop, children often experience shame, guilt, fear, loyalty conflicts, anger and dvepression and anxiety.
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The rate of child abuse is from 6 to 15 times higher in families where the mother is abused than in families where the mother is not abused.
- Of women coming to shelters, more than half report that their children are also physically, emotionally and, sometimes, sexually abused.
- Many battered women report that their abusers threaten or attack their children as a way to control and hurt the mothers even more.
- Studies of abused children reveal that almost half of them have mothers who are also abused, making wife abuse the single strongest identifiable risk factor for child abuse.
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Tragedies & Journalists
A 40-page guide to help journalists, photojournalists and editors report on violence while protecting both victims and themselves.
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Covering Children & Trauma
When children are victims of violence, journalists have a responsibility to report the truth with compassion and sensitivity.