Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Annette Brooke (Liberal Democrat), on Tuesday, 2 February 2010, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 68 members in total.

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND CHILDREN

That this House is concerned that 750,000 children a year witness domestic violence in the home; notes that children can experience domestic violence in many ways such as seeing or hearing the violence and the shouts, screams and crying, seeing the cuts, bruises and emotional impact on the abused parent, getting physically hurt whilst trying to intervene, and being deliberately injured by a perpetrator in order to terrorise the non-abusing parent; supports the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children's campaign to tackle domestic violence from a child's point of view; and calls on the Government to amend the Home Office's definition of domestic violence in England to include the impact of domestic violence on children.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

772 

Session

2009-10

Other sponsors

Bob Spink

Lindsay Hoyle

Robert Flello

Edward Timpson

Barry Sheerman

Subjects

Children Crimes of violence

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk