So blogging is like venting or journaling - and has spell check on the computer stumped!
I guess something I would really like to get out there about victims of domestic violence is that children who experience domestic violence in their home growing up become adults who have learned or not yet learned to deal with what they experienced in childhood.
Imagine watching helplessly as one of the most important people in your life gets beaten by the other most important person in your life! What confusing emotions for a little person to ever experience and deal with.
It’s hard enough for adults to deal with – how in the world can we expect children to process all this confusion? And yet we assume they “don’t see” it or “are asleep” and “don’t hear” it. Come on!! Children are little sponges for emotions and they can feel the tension even when adults aren’t aware of it themselves.
I think we need to hear more from children of domestic violence – the long term and short term effects they’ve dealt with and perhaps are still dealing with today.
If you are an adult or a child who has/is experiencing domestic violence in your family – tell your community about it maybe in the letters to the editor section of your local newspaper. Society needs to realize that domestic violence has lasting effects in the people who experience it. When these angry, helpless emotions intensify as these children become adults – we as a society are forced to deal with the results – whether it is homicides, suicides, alcoholism, drug addiction, senseless violence, etc. Confused emotions create confused people and a confused society.
permalink related link I guess something I would really like to get out there about victims of domestic violence is that children who experience domestic violence in their home growing up become adults who have learned or not yet learned to deal with what they experienced in childhood.
Imagine watching helplessly as one of the most important people in your life gets beaten by the other most important person in your life! What confusing emotions for a little person to ever experience and deal with.
It’s hard enough for adults to deal with – how in the world can we expect children to process all this confusion? And yet we assume they “don’t see” it or “are asleep” and “don’t hear” it. Come on!! Children are little sponges for emotions and they can feel the tension even when adults aren’t aware of it themselves.
I think we need to hear more from children of domestic violence – the long term and short term effects they’ve dealt with and perhaps are still dealing with today.
If you are an adult or a child who has/is experiencing domestic violence in your family – tell your community about it maybe in the letters to the editor section of your local newspaper. Society needs to realize that domestic violence has lasting effects in the people who experience it. When these angry, helpless emotions intensify as these children become adults – we as a society are forced to deal with the results – whether it is homicides, suicides, alcoholism, drug addiction, senseless violence, etc. Confused emotions create confused people and a confused society.
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