Domestic violence is considered as one of the negative factor that affects children’s mental health. Domestic violence is not acceptable at any cost. Children who are facing domestic violence are not having an abuse free home even they are living in a house where they are not safe and secure. They are unable to trust their parents and are afraid of sharing their daily routine activity with their parents.
Domestic violence have so many affects on children’s mental health that they are at increased risk of facing emotional and behavioural problems. Child do face difficulties in studying , learning the things and it affects their grades too.
If we talk about Pakistan majority of the children are facing domestic violence. They do not share their thoughts with anyone infact they just isolate them. The only way the child feel himself safe. Even if the parents are not abusing each other infront of a child still he/she is observing which have direct effect on their mental health.
YOUR CHILD DESERVES AN ABUSE FREE HOME.
Sometimes parents do realize their mistakes but it is too late because their abuse have already destroyed the peace and mental health of their child. Realizing your mistakes later have no benefit but make sure that the house you are living with your child should be a house where there is no abuse.
Being a parent it is your responsibility to provide your child a better home a safe environment where they can live happily without having a feeling of insecurity. Parents shape out the mind of a child if he/she is seeing abuse on daily basis it is so common that the child will be doing the same in future with his partner. It is not the child who should be punished for doing the same but parents should be accountable.
There are consultants , therapists who deal with the cases like domestic violence. Parents who are not coming out of abused life should visit to the consultants because it is important to focus on the mental health of your child. Rather than abusing with your partners try to create an understanding, compromising relationship it will not only benefit you but also your child and he deserves it and teach you child the same thing so that he can avoid repeating the same mistakes their parents did.