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Violence is something that children have seen too much of, whether it be in or out of the home. Violence is on the television, in movies, in songs, in the news, and in video games. For the purpose of this paper I would like to look at a point made in Weissbourd’s The Vulnerable Child and some points from an article titled “Are there Gender Differences in Sustaining Dating Violence? An examination of Frequency, Severity, and Relationship satisfaction.” in the Journal of Family Violence, Vol. 17, No. 3, September 2002 which discusses violence between men and women in dating relationships. After studying both these pieces I’ve come to understand that a child’s witness to violence at a young age can affect their feelings towards violence as an adult. Weissbourd addresses different issues about children and violence. One that seemed intriguing to me is how he points out that the way children cope with violence depends on their parents own ability to cope with violence. With this idea in mind one can come to the theory that if someone lived in a home in which domestic violence was a norm, then it is a good chance that their home might contain domestic violence, and their children will also be in a situation in which domestic violence will be accepted.
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