11/12/2009 Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Children witnessing violence against their mother are far too often neglected as victims of psychological trauma, as possible future victims and as links in a chain of violence, when they could help identify potentially violent situations and avoid new violence in the future. The rates of overlap between domestic violence and child abuse vary between 45% and 70% in different studies.
Adopting a report by Carina Ohlsson (Sweden, SOC) in Paris on 11 December, PACE Social Affairs Committee agreed on a list of measures to be taken by national parliaments and governments. The committee would like to see this issue included in the future Convention on violence against women, including domestic violence.