DOMESTIC VIOLENCE – THE POSITION OF THE CHILD IN VIOLENCE SUFFERED BY THE PARENT AS A VICTIM

Dalibor Krstinić; Milan Počuča; Đorđe Sančanin

doi:10.5937/ptp2302001K

Authors

Dalibor Krstinić Faculty of Law for Commerce and Judiciary in Novi Sad, The University of Business Academy in Novi Sad, Serbia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9731-9178
Milan Počuča Faculty of Law for Commerce and Judiciary in Novi Sad, The University of Business Academy in Novi Sad, Serbia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5433-1134
Đorđe Sančanin Serbian Orthodox Church, Diocese of Srem, Orthodox Priest, PhD student at the Faculty of Law for Commerce and Judiciary in Novi Sad, University Business Academy in Novi Sad, Serbia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5884-0772

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5937/ptp2302001K

Keywords:

domestic violence, child, victim, abuser, the Family Law, the Law on prevention of domestic violence

Abstract

Domestic violence, regardless of how it is manifested, represents a phenomenon which has recently attracted more and more significant doctrinal and media attention and it is a very complex problem. There are numerous questions about domestic violence to which this paper tried to provide answers. However, it is important to point out that domestic violence is not the only type of violence to which a child can be exposed, or to which he/she can be connected in an indirect or direct way. Bearing in mind that one form of violence predominantly causes and entails the other forms of violence to which a child can be exposed, and even find him/herself in the capacity of being a bully, the authors of the paper considered it important to briefly mention the other forms of violence in which the center of attention can be the child, such as digital violence and violence in schools. The focus of the paper has certainly concerned the position of the child in situations where violence against one of the parents (mostly against the mother) by the other parent (mostly the father) occurs. The conclusion is that the direct or indirect child’s presence and/or his/her knowledge of the violence suffered by the mother is actually an extremely negative pattern of behavior being adopted by the majority of children during their development.

Author Biographies

Dalibor Krstinić, Faculty of Law for Commerce and Judiciary in Novi Sad, The University of Business Academy in Novi Sad, Serbia

Milan Počuča, Faculty of Law for Commerce and Judiciary in Novi Sad, The University of Business Academy in Novi Sad, Serbia

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