How children are affected by violence involving their parents
When Rodney Peterson, a high school headmaster in Boston, assaulted his wife five weeks after she gave birth, it seemed a textbook example of the way abusive partners exploit new mothers’ vulnerability. Women are more likely to be assaulted or killed by partners while pregnant or after recently giving birth, research shows.
Traditionally, children were regarded as accidental bystanders to violence involving their parents – a view that is now being …
