Children: Secondary Victims of Domestic Violence

Children Witnessing Domestic and Family Violence: A Widespread Occurrence during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

“…5 Children are typically the primary victims of family violence 2 ; however, children who live in homes in which partner abuse occurs are described as secondary victims. 6 Minors increasingly are witnessing various forms of unprecedented emotional and physical domestic abuse, often resulting in femicide, and exposed to the emotional, behavioral, physical, social, and cognitive effects. 2 …”

Is Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder a helpful concept for adults with intellectual disability?

“…Children experience PTSD symptoms following combat, natural disasters, accidents (Di Gallo et al . 1997), domestic violence (Black & Newman 2000), rape and incest (Boney‐McCoy & Finkelhor 1995) and sexual abuse (Kiser et al . 1988).…”

Children of Uxoricide: the Anti-therapeutic Effects of the Construction of Parenthood Pathology in Cases of Family Trauma

“…Small children will have limited cognitive possibilities for understanding what happened and will often have naïve concepts of causality (Black and Newman, 2000). Moreover, witnessing violence is quite different from being the victim of it and in some circumstances it may even be worse (Kaplan, 1997).…”