Annotated Bibliography: Children's Exposure to Domestic Violence

This annotated bibliography examines the impact of domestic violence on children, drawing from several research articles. Swanston, Bowyer, & Vetere (2014) explore children's and mothers' perspectives. Callaghan et al. (2018) highlight children's experiences of coercive control. Lloyd (2018) investigates the effects on education, while Ragavan et al. (2018) focuses on South Asian children. Finkelhor et al. (2015) provide prevalence data on childhood exposure to violence. These studies use various methodologies, including qualitative research, interviews, and surveys, to analyze the effects of domestic violence on children's mental health, well-being, and educational outcomes. The bibliography emphasizes the importance of understanding children's experiences, the role of cultural factors, and the need for effective interventions to support children affected by domestic violence.

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Annotated Bibliography 1
Swanston, J., Bowyer, L., & Vetere, A. (2014). Towards a richer understanding of school-age
children’s experiences of domestic violence: The voices of children and their mothers. Clinical
child psychology and psychiatry, 19(2), 184-201.
Published in the journal of “Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry”, this research
article by Swanston, Bowyer & Vetere (2014) illustrates the understanding of experience of
school aged children regarding domestic violence. The authors of this research article gathered
the voices of children and their mothers for a better understanding of the impact over the
children. The main points of this research targeted to highlight the dual perspective of school
children as well as their mothers towards the development of the knowledge regarding the
experience of domestic violence by the children with the use of a community-based sampling.
This research study used a qualitative research design with the interpretation of
phenomenological analysis off the data.
The study survey 5 school children and 3 mothers in this study following to master
themes from the analysis regarding the perspective of children regarding domestic violence as
well as learning from the experience of children.to summarize a crucial essentiality of the
relationship of mother and child towards developing the experience of a child towards domestic
violence was explained in this study followed by an appropriate finding for the development of
effective intervention. The data used in this research study are reliable as well as accurate while
discussing the impact of domestic violence. The strength of this research article is that the
researchers highlighted the experience of children with their view of the loss of childhood. The
weakness is that the research received no special grant.

Annotated Bibliography 2
Callaghan, J. E., Alexander, J. H., Sixsmith, J., & Fellin, L. C. (2018). Beyond “witnessing”:
Children’s experiences of coercive control in domestic violence and abuse. Journal of
interpersonal violence, 33(10), 1551-1581.
Callaghan et al., (2018) majorly highlighted over the experience of children witnessing
domestic violence. Experiences and the voices of the children are under presented in the
professional practices around domestic abuse and domestic violence. The researcher of the study
presented analysis from the interview with 21 children deciding in the United Kingdom
regarding the experiences towards domestic abuse and violence as well as a response to this
violence. The interviews collected for the research study well being analyzed is the use of
interpretive interactionism. The research study presented major themes mainly, the experience of
children regarding abuses control that explodes the awareness of children towards controlling
behavior by adult and the consequent impact over them. Father Mall constraint that explodes the
experience of children associated with course of control in the situation of domestic violence
falls under one of the themes for this research study.
To summarize this research paper and use that in case of the situations where violence as
well as domestic abuse occurs among intimate partners, the significant impact of these trauma
falls over the children which can be reasonably described as children being the victims of
abusive control. The strength of the study is that, this research study identifies children as the
direct victims. The weakness of the study is that the entire research study has been done on the
basis of interview of 12 girls and nine boys ranging from age of 8 to 18 years. Researcher of the
study should have included parents and values of teachers to understand the behavioral pattern of
the children witnessing domestic violence.

Annotated Bibliography 3
Lloyd, M. (2018). Domestic violence and education: examining the impact of domestic violence
on young children, children, and young people and the potential role of schools. Frontiers in
psychology, 9, 2094.
Lloyd (2018) in this research article examine how domestic abuse and violence affects
the life as well as the education of young people following the ways they can be supported with
effective system of counselling and education. Study specifically examine the effect of domestic
violence over the mental or psychological health of children which impacts their education. The
study revealed that violence among the life of children often causes major distraction towards
their concentration and schooling thereby harming the quality of their educational experiences.
The entire study is based on secondary data collection methodology where the findings of the
research study concluded the fact that childhood experience of profound implication towards
well-being in the future life of the children.
The data used through the survey are reliable as well as credible since all the literary
sources are taken from peer reviewed journals for discussing the effect of domestic violence over
children. The strength of this study is that the author majorly focuses over emotional trauma and
psychological barriers to learning which can cause due to witnessing domestic violence. The
weakness of the study is that no primary research methodology has been conducted.

Annotated Bibliography 4
Ragavan, M. I., Fikre, T., Millner, U., & Bair-Merritt, M. (2018). The impact of domestic
violence exposure on South Asian children in the United States: Perspectives of domestic
violence agency staff. Child abuse & neglect, 76, 250-260.
Ragavan et al., (2018) in their research study illustrated the effect of domestic violence
exposure over the South Asian children residing in the United States. The researchers of this
study conducted 30 interviews with coding of data as well as consolidation to a larger theme by
the use of thematic analysis. The participants of the survey illustrated several important factors
towards noting the effect of domestic violence over South Asian children with the inclusion of
the role of extended family gender differences and finally the importance of image projection
regarding perfection. The findings of the study suggest the essentiality of swimming children's
experience in the context of interviewing cultural values on how clashes of potential culture
among parents might affect the children.
The data collected for this research study reliable as well as credible. The strength of this
study is that the researchers identified culture to be both potentially harmful as well as protective
regarding impact over children. The weakness of the study is that it lacked to explode the
longitudinal effects of domestic violence over Asian children.

Annotated Bibliography 5
Finkelhor, D., Turner, H. A., Shattuck, A., & Hamby, S. L. (2015). Prevalence of childhood
exposure to violence, crime, and abuse: Results from the national survey of children’s exposure
to violence. JAMA pediatrics, 169(8), 746-754.
This research study and original investigation research by Finkelhor et al., (2015). The
objective of this research study has been to provide the policy makers, professionals as well as
the parents with the current estimates regarding exposure to domestic violence and abuse across
childhood at their different developmental stages. Study specifically targets to explore the
prevalence of exposure of children towards violence and abuse by taking data from “The
National Survey Of Children’s Exposure To Violence”. The study noted the importance for
estimating the burden and the trends for violence and abuse within the lives of children. The
research study included data from the National science day represented is sample of US
telephone numbers. The methodology of the research included a telephonic survey over 4000
children ranging from 10 to 17 years for gaining data regarding their exposure to domestic
violence.
The data gathered reliable as well as accurate from the national survey perspective. 37.3
person experience domestic violence on themselves. The strength of the study in that it
considered together with highlighting the percentage of girl’s sexual abuse during the violence.
The weakness of the study that, no data was out from parents’ adult care givers.

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References
Callaghan, J. E., Alexander, J. H., Sixsmith, J., & Fellin, L. C. (2018). Beyond “witnessing”:
Children’s experiences of coercive control in domestic violence and abuse. Journal of
interpersonal violence, 33(10), 1551-1581.
Finkelhor, D., Turner, H. A., Shattuck, A., & Hamby, S. L. (2015). Prevalence of childhood
exposure to violence, crime, and abuse: Results from the national survey of children’s
exposure to violence. JAMA pediatrics, 169(8), 746-754.
Lloyd, M. (2018). Domestic violence and education: examining the impact of domestic violence
on young children, children, and young people and the potential role of
schools. Frontiers in psychology, 9, 2094.
Ragavan, M. I., Fikre, T., Millner, U., & Bair-Merritt, M. (2018). The impact of domestic
violence exposure on South Asian children in the United States: Perspectives of domestic
violence agency staff. Child abuse & neglect, 76, 250-260.
Swanston, J., Bowyer, L., & Vetere, A. (2014). Towards a richer understanding of school-age
children’s experiences of domestic violence: The voices of children and their
mothers. Clinical child psychology and psychiatry, 19(2), 184-201.