Traumatized Children Have Friends and Family Around Them. They’re Still Completely Alone
Ben Sullivan
The instinct, when a child is struggling, is to point to the people around them. Friends, family, a parent who loves them. But for children who’ve grown up in homes where violence is ordinary, the social network that’s supposed to protect them turns out to be one of the more complicated parts of the picture. A new study from Radboud University in the Netherlands finds that children who’ve experienced interpersonal trauma, things like witnessing domestic violence or being abused by a parent,...