Effects of Domestic Violence
Effects of Domestic Violence
Long-term effects of domestic violence on women who have been abused may include:
- anxiety
- chronic depression
- chronic pain
- death
- dehydration
- dissociative states
- drug and alcohol dependence
- eating disorders
- emotional “over-reactions” to stimuli
- general emotional numbing
- health problems
- malnutrition
- panic attacks
- poor adherence to medical recommendations
- poverty
- repeated self-injury
- self neglect
- sexual dysfunction
- sleep disorders
- somatization disorders
- strained family relationships
- suicide attempts
- an inability to adequately respond to the needs of their children.
In a 1999 study from Johns Hopkins, it was reported that abused women are at higher risk of miscarriages, stillbirths, and infant deaths, and are more likely to give birth to low birth weight children, a risk factor for neonatal and infant deaths. In addition, children of abused women were more likely to be malnourished and were more likely to have had a recent untreated case of diarrhea and less likely to have been immunized against childhood diseases. 10
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