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The domestic violence: A significant adverse experience with great complications in the child

Abstract:

Domestic violence and child maltreatment are important public health problems, with an increasing prevalence, for this reason, the complications of domestic violence will be established as an adverse experience, which produces serious immediate, profound and lasting negative effects on the child, as the affectation of the neurobiological functioning of the brain, the interruption in the development of brain circuits and the increase of the levels of stress hormones, which disturb the physical and mental health of the child. Domestic violence is a vicious circle that implies an imbalance of power and is exercised from the strongest to the weakest, with the ultimate goal of exercising control over the intrafamilial relationship, creating a toxic stress in children, which represents one of the adverse experiences more serious that can leave indelible traces, which contribute to health problems, cognitive deficit, language alterations, academic difficulties, emotional problems, self-destructive behaviors that affect subsequent social relationships, increases the risk of diseases and psychosocial problems in adulthood. The World Health Organization (WHO) establishes that violence is preventable by encouraging the use of strategies that support the development of safe, stable and nurturing relationships and environments for parents or caregivers and their children.