The Effects of Children's Exposure to Domestic Violence: A Meta-Analysis and Critique

By David Wolfe, Claire V. Crooks, Vivien Lee, Alexandra McIntyre-Smith, P. Jaffe. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Demography, Health

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Children’s Actions when Experiencing Domestic Violence (2009, background): “The last 10 years of predominantly quantitative research in this field has led to the conclusion that being exposed to domestic violence has great potential for strong adverse outcomes in children, resulting, among other things, in high levels of aggression, depression, anger and anxiety (GrahamBerm”
Externalities in the Classroom: How Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Affect Everyone's Kids. NBER Working Paper No. 14246. (2008, neutral): “Research indicates that these children suffer from a number of social and emotional problems including aggressive behavior, depression, anxiety, decreased social competence, and diminished academic performance (Jeffrey L. Edleson 1999; David A. Wolfe et al. 2003; John W. Fantuzzo and Wanda K. Mohr…”
Exposure to maternal vs. paternal partner violence, PTSD, and aggression in adolescent girls and boys (2006, background): “While several studies have examined sex differences in the effects of exposure to IPV [see Kitzmann et al., 2003 and Wolfe et al., 2003 for reviews], few have examined whether there are similar effects when IPV is perpetrated by mothers vs. fathers.”
Striving to be ‘good’ mothers: abused women's experiences of mothering (2010, background): “There has been, over the last two decades, a growing interest in the situation of children living with domestic violence, and research evidence has raised concerns regarding the consequences that violence has on children (for reviews, see Edleson, 1999; Hester et al., 2007; Kitzmann et al., 2003; Wo”
Poly-victimization: a neglected component in child victimization. (2007, background): “Several studies have found, for example, that witnessing domestic violence and being the direct victim of child abuse results in worse outcomes than one or the other by itself (Bedi & Goddard, in press; Kernic et al., 2003; McCloskey & Walker, 2000; Wolfe et al., 2003).”
Children’s Perceptions of Intimate Partner Violence: Causes, Consequences, and Coping (2011, background): “…maladjustment is clear (Ehrensaft et al. 2003), with two meta-analyses showing that children from violent families have elevated rates of internalizing and externalizing symptoms, academic problems, and peer problems (Kitzmann et al. 2003; Wolfe et al. 2003; also see DeBoard-Lucas and Grych 2011).”
The Effects of Child Abuse and Exposure to Domestic Violence on Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior Problems (2010, methodology): “Numerous studies have demonstrated that children exposed to domestic violence and/or child abuse are more likely to experience a wide range of adverse psychosocial and behavioral outcomes (T. Herrenkohl et al. 2008; Sternberg et al. 2006; Wolfe et al. 2003).”
The Causal Impact of Removing Children from Abusive and Neglectful Homes (2019, neutral): “aggressive behavior or depression (Fantuzzo and Mohr 1999; Wolfe et al. 2003; Holt, Buckley, andWhelan 2008; Doyle and Aizer 2018).”