It is estimated that in Italy are at least 400 thousand children are victims of violence, physical abuse, psychological and economic perpetrated on their mothers, most often by their husbands and partners, within the home. Faced with these crimes children are helpless, defenseless and vulnerable audience.
To shed light on this reality were Save the Children and Adolescent and the Guarantor of the Lazio Region, during a meeting in Rome called Spectators and victims: children and children who witness an act of violence affected the , an initiative proposed in the framework of the European project Daphne III (Minor assisted victims of gender violence in the home.
Analysis of the efficiency of protection system), coordinated by the Spanish section of the organization pro-children. In 19.6% of cases, children have rarely been involved in scenes of domestic violence in 20.2% sometimes, often in 22.6%. In 15.7% of cases the involvement of children in physical violence experienced by mothers was even directed, in accordance with the following breakdown: rarely (5.6%), sometimes (4.9%), often (5.2% ).
According to Raffaele Milan, Italy-Europe Programme Manager Save the Children, "a delicate and critical on the mothers is that sometimes deny that their children could be affected before witnessing the violence and tend to defend the partner claiming that children are not violent . Doing so makes it more difficult the emergence of pain and discomfort of the child and the possibility of effective treatment and help.
In fact - he concluded - a child receives even less visible signs of violence, even the sound of a broken plate, muffled screams, or the terrible silence that followed a fight. " According to the expert is now shown that children who witness violence on a person's fundamental for him as his mother is going through a trauma and will have an impact equal to that of one who has suffered direct abuse. 
To shed light on this reality were Save the Children and Adolescent and the Guarantor of the Lazio Region, during a meeting in Rome called Spectators and victims: children and children who witness an act of violence affected the , an initiative proposed in the framework of the European project Daphne III (Minor assisted victims of gender violence in the home.
Analysis of the efficiency of protection system), coordinated by the Spanish section of the organization pro-children. In 19.6% of cases, children have rarely been involved in scenes of domestic violence in 20.2% sometimes, often in 22.6%. In 15.7% of cases the involvement of children in physical violence experienced by mothers was even directed, in accordance with the following breakdown: rarely (5.6%), sometimes (4.9%), often (5.2% ).
According to Raffaele Milan, Italy-Europe Programme Manager Save the Children, "a delicate and critical on the mothers is that sometimes deny that their children could be affected before witnessing the violence and tend to defend the partner claiming that children are not violent . Doing so makes it more difficult the emergence of pain and discomfort of the child and the possibility of effective treatment and help.
In fact - he concluded - a child receives even less visible signs of violence, even the sound of a broken plate, muffled screams, or the terrible silence that followed a fight. " According to the expert is now shown that children who witness violence on a person's fundamental for him as his mother is going through a trauma and will have an impact equal to that of one who has suffered direct abuse.
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