The affects of domestic violence do not stop when the cuts and bruises heal. The psychological affects of domestic violence can be seen long after the violence has stopped. Many of the criminals that are locked up institutions blame their violent acts on the violence that they were victims of when they were young. It is devastating for a child to witness its mother, or father, getting beat. Violence in the home tends to desensitize …showed first 75 words of 1266 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1266 total…them to commit the crimes that they commit. Over three million children are at risk to be victims of domestic violence each year. With this number of children being victims of domestic violence every year, society is at risk of becoming heartless, emotionless, and very violent towards each other. Society is leaning toward having to spend billions of dollars having to rehabilitate those who have programmed to commit acts of violence on their loved ones.