Domestic Violence Correlates to Behavioral Problems in Children

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Running head: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CORRELATES TO BEHAVIORAL Domestic Violence Correlates to Behavioral Problems in Children Mary L. Terry Liberty University Abstract This study seeks to better understand how the victimization of children and/or their loved ones affects their behavior. Questionnaires will be sent to will be mailed to each single-mother family with a child in the local elementary school district in order to ascertain whether or not they would be interested in participating in the study. General information regarding age and ethnicity will be obtained, along with whether or not they would be interested in participating in the study. Research will be limited to 75 family groups using face to face interviews and the administration of several questionnaires to the mother and the child in the study. This study should help the researcher to better understand the implications domestic violence has on behavioral problems in children and the time to intervene in order to lessen behavioral problems. Domestic Violence Correlates to Behavioral Problems in Children I became interested in this subject because I work in a home for children and regularly have children in my care that have either been victims of physical abuse or witnessed the physical abuse of a loved one; sometimes they have been both victimized and witnessed the abuse. I want to learn what I can do to help them in the best way that I can. The purpose of this study is to compare how the victimization of the children or their loved ones may cause the children to have greater behavioral problems than children who have not experienced the same and how intervention can help. In the United States violence is extremely widespread and usually targets women and children. According to the Family Violence Prevention Fund [ (2008) ], “15.5 million U.S. children live in families in which partner

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