Children need greater support in domestic violence situations

Federal, state and territory governments have all committed to ending gender-based violence within one generation, and since the pledge was made a lot of the attention has been on supporting victim-survivors, and intervening earlier to stop perpetrators. 

But advocates say one group that needs more attention is the children growing up in households where gender-based violence is occurring: according to one researcher, as many as one in two Australian children is growing up in a home where there's some form of family violence. 

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