Domestic Violence and Violence against Children
In many incidences of domestic violence, it occurs when a member of the family tries to physically or psychologically attempts to harm the other. There are many negative aspects of families as well as the violence of children in Australia. Nevertheless, these aspects come by either as witnesses to or as a victim the conflict. In Australia, there are many separations of domestic violence and also child protection issues. The rising recognition of these aspects seems to owe so much to the work of the women’s refuge movement. However, domestic violence and child abuse are considered normal aspects and in some cultures, they are accepted. Similarly, to distinguish children who suffer abuse and violence at their families from those who are exposed to these aspects give a significant and real challenge whereby the phenomenon are rarely discrete. However, in Australia, the rate of physical abuse, domestic violence, and also sexual abuse to children are approximately 60% (Richards, 2011). There are arguments that the numbers are underrepresented so there are more children exposed to domestic violence and many types of abuse.
The Australian Bureau of statistics which is about the Personal Safety Survey found that almost every woman who had experienced violence from partners when they have 15 years has children in the same relationship. Again in that case at least 60% showed that the violence had been witnessed by children and 40% no children witnessed. In Australia, children who live under family violence are described as forgotten and invisible and therefore these children’s research says that they are traumatized because of the aspects. Today there is a policy initiative and programs which are community-based which are established in Australia to solve the problem of children being exposed to domestic violence. The community-based program together with the initiative policy offer interventions and the approaches which will help prevent children from being exposed to domestic violence. The initiative and the community-based program acknowledge about how bad it can be for a child to be exposed to domestic violence, children being forced to take part in the violence as well as them being used as part of the violence (Hegarty, Hindemarsh & Gelles, 2020). Consequently, research argues that consumption of alcohol in Australia is above average and so domestic violence is related to the harmful drinkers who turn to be harmful and cause violence.
Today domestic violence is very common in Australia whereby it is obtained from the public records and even clinical samples. A recent review in Australia showed that 100,000 women’s injuries are a result of domestic violence. The review continues to argue that women are more likely to experience the aspect of physical violence from their partners than men. Most incidences of domestic violence usually go unreported and so is it not possible to measure the true extent of the problem. In 1998, Carlos Carcash conducted a study from the Australian Institute of Criminology. The study showed that most assaults against women are not reported and the offender goes freely without facing the law. Nonetheless, in 2005 the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed that at least 40% of women who experienced physical violence by male crook took the report to the police. Importantly, between the year 2014 and 2016, there were 264,028 domestic violence cases which were reported ( Molina, Levell, 2020). However, the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed data showing that 80% of women and 95% of men experienced violence by a partner and did not report to the police. There were some reasons behind not the cases being reported to the police one of them being the fear of revenge or the partner to further extend the violence.
The study finds that in Australia, the effects of domestic and family violence during parenting together with a parent-child relationship. Primarily, the inter-parental disputes and domestic violence have effects on the children whereby the relationship of the parent and the child is affected and especially the violent one. According to the study by Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, family violence may continue even after the victims are in their separate ways with the connection for how support is offered. In each year many lives usually lost due to injuries from domestic violence. Also, domestic and sexual violence have impacts on the families whereby there is the disconnection of parents who harm children and also to the children who witness the violence tent to be affected. Children who are exposed to violence in most cases may show a rebounding behavior during the violence. However, the Australian Bureau of Statistics is working on what to do to stop domestic violence and sexual abuse as well achieving behavior-based definition which are promising and which covers all children who at risk of domestic violence. Basically on that matter, the organization should acknowledge that witnessing family violence is termed as child abuse and therefore should be reported to the police ( Carrington, Phillips, 2003). The Australia Bureau of Statistics should, therefore, widen its information collection on men and women who experience domestic violence. The organization is also working with government and also territory jurisdictions to get a national regularity when converting the wrongdoer relationship to child victims. Indigenous Australians are represented whereby in a case both parties are wrongdoers.