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The federal government spends an estimated $55 billion annually on dealing with the effects of childhood exposure to domestic violence, according to new research by social scientists at Case Western Reserve University.
The results of a study on the national economic impact of exposure to domestic violence–published in The Journal of Family Violence–showed higher health-care costs, higher crime rates and lower productivity in children as they aged.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) defines intimate partner violence–more commonly known as domestic violence–as any physical violence, sexual violence, stalking and/or psychological aggression perpetrated by a current or former intimate partner.
In the United States, an estimated 15.5 million children each year are exposed to at least one episode of intimate partner violence, with more than 25 percent of children exposed to domestic violence in their lifetime.
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-exposure-domestic-violence-billion-year.html
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