Witnessing Domestic Violence: A Case Study of Effects on the Child in the Short Film “Samskara”

Author(s)	Mousumi Biswal
Country	India
Abstract	Domestic violence is an ongoing experience of physical, psychological, or sexual abuse in the home that is used to establish power and control over another person. Most of the medical literature has focused on the effects of domestic violence on the primary victims. What effect does witnessing domestic violence have on secondary victims, such as children who live in homes where the partners abuse others? This paper will examine how domestic violence leads children to develop age-dependent adverse effects. It will focus on the cognitive, behavioural, and emotional impact of domestic violence. It will analyse through the lens of affect theory how the abused child Abhimanyu adopts the personality and traits of his abusive father in his adolescence, which turns him into the same culprit for his wife.
Keywords	Domestic Violence, Children Abuse, Family Relationships, Affect Theory, Trauma
Field	Sociology > Health
Published In	Volume 6, Issue 2, March-April 2024
Published On	2024-04-02
Cite This	Witnessing Domestic Violence: A Case Study of Effects on the Child in the Short Film “Samskara” - Mousumi Biswal - IJFMR Volume 6, Issue 2, March-April 2024. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i02.16273
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i02.16273
Short DOI	https://doi.org/gtpw5v

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