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In America, a child watching her mother being beaten or raped does not qualify for child protection services.
Watch this video.
It demonstrates vividly how our public policies force children to live in the most depraved and damaging circumstances.
A few decades ago in Minnesota, a once progressive state, changed child protection statutes to allow children subjected to horrible domestic violence to be reported as abused (and receive some relief).
Case loads doubled overnight & the statutes were reversed before a full year had passed.
911 domestic violence call from a child witnessing abuse. This video was mentioned on the Dr. Phil show in regards to the effects of witnessing domestic violence by children.
This video gives a glimpse into the reality of what domestic violence is like from a child’s perspective. We’ve heard the words domestic violence. We know what it is, or at the very least, we are aware it exists.
When we say “domestic violence” the words that most typically come to mind are women, abuse, pain, and violence. Children rarely come to mind. Less than 10% of people surveyed think of the children who live in homes where domestic violence occurs. However, children are present in more than half of domestic violence incidents.
Childhood domestic violence (CDV) is domestic violence when children are present.
UNICEF calls it “one of the most damaging unaddressed human right violations in the word today.”
In our county, a child – under the age of 18 – subjected to repeatedly watching their father masturbate (to pornography, a sexy magazine, etc) in their living room, does not qualify her/him for child protective services. If it were a “stranger” it would, but not a family member.
However, I can assure you through the eyes of the children who went through this…they are struggling with many issues as they mature through adulthood.
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