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The second European Conference on Domestic Violence (ECDV) was held in Porto, Portugal in September 2017. Given the interest in and focus on children and adolescents at both the first and second ECDV, and the identified need to gather research and researchers working in the field of children and domestic violence in Europe, the JOFV made a call for a special issue on European research on children, adolescents and domestic violence. The call has resulted in this double issue of 17 articles which comment on research conducted across Europe, authored from differed scientific backgrounds and reflecting diversity in topics and methods. The work reflects not only how far we have come in Europe on developing research based knowledge on children and domestic violence, but it has also has played an important role in identifying multiple gaps and address needs for the future..
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We prefer this term, rather than terms such as ‘witnessing’ or being ‘exposed to’ the violence, as ‘experience’ stresses the child’s subjective position, and underline that the child experience the violence with all their senses. ‘Being exposed to’ has the connotation that an event is happening to you, such as a wave crashing in on top of you, or finding yourself in the middle of an earthquake, which is not the case with domestic violence which is often ongoing, pervasive, and seldom sudden.
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Øverlien, C., Holt, S. European Research on Children, Adolescents and Domestic Violence: Impact, Interventions and Innovations. J Fam Viol 34, 365–369 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-019-00067-x
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