Children as Secondary Victims of Domestic Violence

Pavićević, Olivera (2019) Children as Secondary Victims of Domestic Violence. In: Yearbook. No. 2, Human rights protection : protection of the right's of the child : 30 years after the adoption of The Convention on the Rights of the Child. Provincial Protector of Citizens - Ombudsman ; Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research, Novi Sad ; Belgrade, pp. 95-111. ISBN 978-86-89417-10-4

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Abstract

Exposure to domestic and intimate partner violence is a great burden on children across developmental stages and these poor outcomes are noted among children from a range of different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds across the world. Although domestic violence affects all who are exposed: perpetrators, victims, and the children, analysis of violence effects are usually focused on primary victim. Secondary victims – children – witnesses of domestic violence are far too often neglected as victims of the psychological consequences of such violence, as possible future victims and as elements of a chain of violence who could help identify potentially violent situations and avoid new violence in the future.

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