What about the children?
- These children face a dual threat: witnessing the trauma, and becoming victims themselves.
- They live with unnaturally high levels of anxiety, and often experience difficulties in shcool.
- They may suffer post traumatic stress disorder-similar to war vererans-even after a single incident.
- They are more likely to experience truancy, temper tantrums, juvenile delinquency, theft, insomnia, depression, physical health problems, substance abuse, teenage prostitution, and violence towards peers.
- They are much more likely to perpetuate the roles of abuser or victim when they become adults.
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