Children who see family violence 'more likely to have asthma, psychiatric issues'

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Children exposed to family violence from infancy are up to three times more likely to develop asthma and have a psychiatric diagnosis, emotional behavioural difficulties or impaired language skills by the age of 10.
These are some of the grim findings from a decade-long study led by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, which documented the experiences of more than 1500 first-time Victorian mothers.
Family violence can have long-lasting consequences.
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The study which has been published in the prestigious
British Medical Journal, also found children who saw their mothers endure intimate partner violence over an extended period during the first 10 years of life fared much worse than those who received intervention by the age of five.

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