Psy 201 Week 5

Living in partner-violent families: Developmental links to antisocial behavior and relationship violence.

I chose this topic and article because the “cycle of violence” is something that I can relate to. I got into a domestic violent relationship at a very young age and was scared to speak to anyone about, because I was afraid of what might happen, but I’ve never experienced child abuse. Child abuse and chastising your children is totaling different. I find it to be pretty amusing as to how children who are exposed to intimate partner-violent families are likely to follow the same path when they reach adulthood. I would think that a child, as they get older, would want to refrain from such violent relationships after witnessing the violence from their parents; but statistics prove that such exposure is very relative for violent interactions in adulthood. Domestic violence is something that many families struggle with and it is a very unfortunate situation for a child to listen and see the events that take place when parental violence happens. I do feel that the “cycle of violence” continues to happen with each generation because the children being raised in these households know nothing more than what they are being exposed to. How would they know what a healthy, and normal intimate relationship entails if they are shown nothing but unhealthy abuse? The article that I chose focuses on living in partner-violent homes and the correlation between aggressive and antisocial behavior that develops in adolescence and early adulthood. This specific article states that a very large number of children are raised in homes that involve some type of parental violence. It has been estimated that up to 20% of children are exposed to child abuse and/or seeing their parents be physically