ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the domestic violence they all include verbal abuse as one of the sorts of abuse that produces short- and long-term effects in children who are witnessing it. There are several important studies by child psychiatrists dealing with domestic violence and its effects on children, and there is much controversy about this subject. Female violence exists, even if it appears in different forms from that by men. In both men and women, as described by James Gilligan, violence emerges as an outcome of shame and being subjected to humiliation. However, whereas men will usually attack an outside target, women tend to inflict harm onto them. The consequences of being a witness to domestic violence may be short term and temporary, or there may be much longer term effects. Witnesses to violence may, either at the time or later in life, suffer intrusive memories and flashbacks, separation anxiety, aggressiveness and hyperactivity, emotional detachment, and other problems as well.
