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Silent Victims Children Who Witness Violence
Betsy McAlister Groves, MSW;
Barry Zuckerman, MD;
Steven Marans, MSW;
Donald J. Cohen, MD
JAMA. 1993;269(2):262-264.
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THE CRISIS of violence in the United States has expanded to include more than the traditional emphasis on the victim and perpetrator. We would like to bring attention to a previously underrecognized group of victims in this public health epidemic: the children who witness the violence. These usually silent, indirect victims show no physical sign of harm and are commonly overlooked. In urban pediatric practices, clinicians increasingly are told that their young patients hear gunshots outside their homes, witness shootings on the playground, or have a family member (often an older sibling) involved with violence. Recent studies support this. One of every 10 children attending Boston (Mass) City Hospital pediatric primary care clinic witnessed a shooting or stabbing before the age of 6 years,1 half in the home, half on the streets. The average age of the children in this study was 2.7 years. A survey of elementary-school-aged children
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Author Affiliations
From the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Boston (Mass) City Hospital/Boston University School of Medicine (Ms McAlister Groves and Dr Zuckerman), and the Yale Child Study Center, Yale University, New Haven, Conn (Mr Marans and Dr Cohen).
Footnotes
Reprint requests to Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Boston City Hospital, Talbot 214, 818 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02118 (Ms Groves).
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