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[Domestic Violence issues]

Here is a recent article about how one child's intervention in a domestic violence attack saved his mother's life. 

http://www.mailtribune.com/article/20150409/NEWS/150409550/101033/NEWS

And here is information about how frequently children are exposed to family violence:

A recent study by a team of renowned social scientists focused on "Children's Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence and Other Family Violence." (Hamby, S., Finkelhor, D.,Turner, H., and Ormrod, R., Juvenile Justice Bulletin, October, 2011). The study offered very sobering conclusions:
*	In the past year, 6.6% or more than five million children have been exposed to physical Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
*	Of that exposure, 65-86% of the children were eyewitnesses to the violence
*	Over a lifetime, 90% of children exposed to physical IPV are eyewitnesses
*	If you look at  exposure to any type of violence (ie, not just physical violence) with any family member (i.e., not just intimate partners), the rate increases to a lifetime prevalence of 25%


31% of children who witnessed DV reported being physically abused themselves (Hamby, S., Finkelhor, D., Turner, H., Ormrod, R., "The overlap of witnessing partner violence with child maltreatment and other victimizations in a nationally representative survey of youth." Child Abuse and Neglect 34, 734-741, 2010).

Nearly 50% of kids who witness DV try to intervene in some way, facing physical harm, retribution, and more (Hamby, S., Supra,).

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