Impact of Witnessing Violence

"Children witnessing violence may be more aggressive," reads the headline of a story in think: The Magazine of Case Western Reserve University (Fall/Winter 2013). The article reports...

"Aggression in school-age children may begin in those 3-years-old and younger who witnessed violence between their mothers and partners.... Researcher Megan Holmes, assistant professor of social work at Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences studied 107 children who were exposed to intimate partner violence in their first three years of life, but not again after age 3.  Their behavior was compared to that of 339 children who never witnessed violence in the home.

"From age 3 to 5, children who had witnessed violence showed no behavioral differences from those who had not.  But those exposed to violence began showing increased aggression by the time they reached elementary school age...."

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