The impact Domestic Violence has on a child
Kevin Jackson
CJA/314
March 11, 2015
Michael Paris

The impact Domestic Violence has on a child

The content of the video that we will be discussing will focus on domestic violence. How can domestic violence have a traumatic effect on the children that is exposed? As well as how many types of abuse can a child be a victim of in their own resident.
To get a clear understanding of what domestic violence is we must first define its meaning- which is the inflicting of physical injury by one family or household member on another; a repeated or habitual pattern of such behavior (Merriam-Webster 2014). The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry states that there are ten million children in the US that witness domestic violence in their household between their caregivers each year (Aacap.org 2013).
When domestic violence’s is constant in a household the children of that resident will develop serious emotional and behavioral problems. Unfortunately when a child is exposed to this type of behavior they usually become a victim of child abuse themselves .There are five types of abuse that a child can endure while growing up in an unstable, violence environment.
The five types of child abuse the video addressed was physical, verbal, emotional and psychological torment, sexual molestation, and neglect. Anyone if not all can leave a child psychologically scarred thought-out their livelihood. When a child is subjected to physical abuse they are usually punish to the extreme, broken bones, head trauma and abrasion is just a few examples that may occur. The second form of abuse is verbal abuse which consist of constant negative comment about that person, like shaming, or name calling. The third abuse a child endures is emotional and psychological torment, which consist of constant put down that berate the child,