Research Report: The Effects of Child Abuse on Educational Achievement

This report investigates the significant impact of child abuse, specifically domestic violence, on children's educational attainment and overall development. It begins with a literature review that explores how child abuse affects a child's growth, mental health, and behavior in school, referencing key studies and experts in the field. The research question focuses on analyzing the correlation between domestic violence and educational outcomes. The methodology section outlines a systematic review approach, detailing how data will be collected from articles, journals, NGO reports, and websites to gather relevant information. The report acknowledges limitations in the systematic review process, such as the time-consuming nature of data collection and potential inconsistencies across different papers. Key terms such as domestic violence, abuse, children and education are used to find relevant information. The report concludes by highlighting the need for further research and interventions to mitigate the adverse effects of child abuse on education and overall well-being, emphasizing the importance of providing a supportive environment for children and promoting mental health initiatives. The report also stresses the use of education as a tool to reduce violence against children.

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Table of Contents
RESEARCH QUESTION...............................................................................................................1
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................1
METHODOLOGY..........................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

RESEARCH QUESTION
Analyzing impact of domestic violence on educational growth and development of
children
LITERATURE REVIEW
According to Herman, 2015, a child growth starts from age of 8. It is the age where child
is able to understand and acquire value, ethics, etc. followed within family and society. So, it is
very important to determine needs of child so that its growth is not impacted. It benefits them to
achieve goals in the future. But in recent time there is high rise in cases of domestic violence on
children. This has highly affected on their initial growth and education. Consequently, it has
been evaluated that abusing child can hamper on their physical health as well. It may result in
some critical circumstances in which child feels uncomfortable to share problems. By analyzing
previous case studies related to child abuse it is identified that the result of domestic violence is
not up to education but also on mental health. In addition to it, when a child is involved in
domestic issue, a feeling of fear is developed among them. they try to avoid interacting with
other people. Along with it, in schools their behavior changes. they start feeling lonely. He or she
become habitual of environment which prevails at home. This forces them to change their goals
and objectives. Thus, it impacts on their education as well.
In view of Cook and et.al., 2017, there are different types of domestic violence such as
physical or sexual abuse, isolation, verbal abuse, etc. A child may be a victim of any type of
violence. Also, there are many other effects of abuse on child development. When a child
pursues his or her goals it is necessary that parents fully support them. this motivate in
developing plan and implementing them. A child education creates a base for him or her to attain
goals. then, growth begins which allow them to gain knowledge. It has been found that adults are
not affected to abuse to that extent as compared to child. There exists a huge difference between
it. Also, there are many other things apart from violence which effect child education. Abusing
impact on mental as well as physical health of child. Sometime, the effect is such that child
leaves school. There is no progress on their growth. Alongside it, some children suffer for long
time throughout their life.
As elucidated by Katz, 2015, in most of the cases the environment within family highly
impact on child growth. It is because children are closely related to parents and inherit values
and ethics from them. furthermore, at each stage when child is abused it impact in different way.
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but on contrary it has been said by Truman and Morgan, 2015, the impact of domestic violence
can be easily overcome. This can be done by providing positive environment to child, involving
them in outdoor activities, etc. So, by improving mental health of child proper education can be
attained. It is essential that some measures must be taken to determine effect and resolve them.
this will be useful in finding what type of abuse effect is more and how a child behavior change
in it. However, it is observed that education is been used as effective tool to reduce violence
against children. Through this, they are able to pursue towards their goals. also, it has helpful in
providing positive atmosphere.
There are many parents and child care center who does not know about impact of
domestic violence on child education. So, they are not able to identify their needs. Therefore, a
study is been conducted to describe how abusing child directly impact on attainment of
education. Besides this, it will be useful in finding whether there is impact of violence of child or
not and what measures are taken by parents to reduce impact.
METHODOLOGY
A research methodology is a framework which provide a roadmap to conduct study by
using various methods. it enables scholar to investigate and attain aims and objectives in
systematic way. So, for present study systematic review methodology will be adopted. It will be
useful in gathering relevant data. A proper procedure will be followed. The method is further
explained below:-
 First of all, data will be collected from previous articles, journals, etc. which are based on
domestic violence on children (Rosskam, 2018). Moreover, research paper will be studied
and analyzed which are based on child abuse and its impact on growth. Through this, it
will be easy to gather theoretical knowledge that how many children are been abused and
how it has impacted on their education.
 Secondly, data and information will be collected from websites, reports of NGO, etc.
from this facts and figures can be analyzed. Moreover, stats will be gathered that on what
age there is high impact of violence on child. Hence, precise and accurate data will be
included in study.
In order to gather relevant information certain key terms will be used. This is done to
make provide ease in data collection process. here, several key terms such as domestic violence,
abuse, children, education, etc. through these terms, articles, journals, etc. will be searched on
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website and database. By defining the terms, it will be easy and simple for scholar to select only
relevant papers related to topic (Ledford and Gast, 2018). This will save time and cost in
conducting study.
Limitation
In following this method there are some limitation which can occur. They are described
below :-
 It requires a lot of time for researcher to search for articles and journals on website.
Another limitation is the data needs to be analyzed. But in different paper it can vary.
Thus, this will limit scholar in obtaining relevant findings .
 In present topic there is no specific age limit mentioned of child. So, it may be difficult
for researcher to gather data and segregate according to age groups.
These problems may highly impact on findings generated by doing systematic review.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Cook, A. and et.al., 2017. Complex trauma in children and adolescents. Psychiatric
annals. 35(5). pp.390-398.
Herman, J.L., 2015. Trauma and recovery: The aftermath of violence--from domestic abuse to
political terror. Hachette UK.
Katz, E., 2015. Domestic violence, children's agency and mother–child relationships: Towards a
more advanced model. Children & Society. 29(1). pp.69-79.
Ledford, J.R. and Gast, D.L., 2018. Single case research methodology: Applications in special
education and behavioral sciences. Routledge.
Rosskam, E., 2018. Using participatory action research methodology to improve worker health.
In Unhealthy Work(pp. 211-228). Routledge.
Truman, J.L. and Morgan, R.E., 2015. NONFATAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, 2003-
2012. Journal of Current Issues in Crime, Law & Law Enforcement. 8(4).
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