Domestic Violence Through A Five Year Old's Eyes

Mike Tikkanen · November 15, 2012 · 1 min read

911 domestic violence call from a child witnessing abuseyoutube.com

Dr. Phil referenced this video on the reality of how domestic violence impacts a child. In America, a child watching her mother being beaten or raped does not qualify for child protection services.

A few decades ago in Minnesota, a once progressive state, changed child protection statutes to allow children subjected to horrible domestic violence to be reported as abused (and receive some relief).

Case loads doubled overnight & the statutes were reversed before a full year had passed.

Watch this video. It demonstrates vividly how our public policies force children to live in the most depraved and damaging circumstances.

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States covered: Minnesota

Republished from the Kids At Risk Action blog as written. No images from the original corpus appear in any form.

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