Again, given that I'm not a researcher in family violence, I can't produce statistics for you, but the impact on children is severe. Post-traumatic stress disorder can present itself as anxiety issues in the schools, for example. Again, I'll point to the increase in shared parenting and the increase in diagnoses and IEPs in schools now. That's a severe impact, and it will carry forward throughout the rest of their lives.
The more we can protect them from that, protect them from violence.... Children know, even at a young age, whether they feel safe or not safe. They may not know their rights, and that is a huge thing that needs to be done, because they know the culture they're born in, and that's the world they know. Being insulted or being harmed, that could be normal to them.
We need to have conventions that communicate and give them those rights, but the damage is severe. As I said, in my community, within walking distance of my home, I get reminded all the time when I walk by those homes that children died there. That's just the tip of the iceberg. There's a huge submerged part, different levels of trauma that are being experienced.