Website/URL: http://www.register-herald.com...estic-violence-movie
Organized By: Women’s Resource Center
Contact Info: 304-255-2559
As a part of its awareness campaign for Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Women’s Resource Center will host two free screenings of a documentary that highlights childhood domestic violence.
“According to UNICEF, 275 million children worldwide experience childhood domestic violence (CDV) each year,” said Dee Sizemore, PR and Fundraising Development Coordinator for the WRC.
“Combined with the adults who used to be these children, close to 1 billion lives are impacted globally. You may have never heard of CDV before, at least not in that sequence, because it has never before existed to frame a category that so many people around the world belong to.”
She said researchers believe that CDV is as damaging as physical child abuse, if not more, but this issue has not been widely discussed.
“There is currently less than 10 percent awareness of the children, and since most scars are on the inside, this perpetuates lack of awareness and true understanding, leaving this issue largely unspoken about.
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