Journal of Forensic Psychology

Abstract

Domestic Violence during COVID-19 Lockdown and Its Impact on Children

Janaki Mudaliar Cheluvaraju*

Children are like beautiful flowers if they were brought up in good environment. When children were brought up in an environment which is filled with violence and filthy things they will learn and grow in accordance to the environment and will adapt the same in their behavior, emotions, intelligence and personality which will affect their mental health and which will be a great loss to society. The children are speed learners and execute what they have learned, obviously they will display the same violence to which they are exposed and the reason why we can see the children who are in conflict with law are being reported 29768 cases in 2020 alone. The current paper will try to analyses the impact of domestic violence on children during the COVID-19 lockdown on their mental health. The present study is an explorative study which is qualitative in nature, which was conducted in Mysore city with the sample of 50 who were selected from the purposively who were exposed to domestic violence. Major findings of the study reveals that the impact of violence on children is relatively high.

Published Date: 2022-10-10; Received Date: 2022-09-07