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Opinion: Let's Listen to Survivors and Prevent Domestic Violence in Future Generations [calhealthreport.org]

 

By Krista Niemczyk, California Health Report, January 3, 2020

Survivors often tell us that they want to prevent anyone else from experiencing the pain they went through.

“Bring in guest speakers to high schools on domestic violence,” one survivor requested, when asked about how we can move toward a future free from domestic violence. “Chances are, there are students, like my children, who are going through it with their mom and they don’t know what it is that they’re going through.”

Domestic violence is a learned behavior, and intergenerational trauma has real impacts on youth.

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Most, if not all, perpetrators of domestic violence were exposed to unsupportive and harmful parenting as children.  If we want to stop domestic violence we should be working furiously to find ways to improve the overall quality of parenting in communities.  Visit advancingparenting.org. 

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