The minor as victim of gender violence. A multidisciplinary approach

Abstract

Gender violence is a problematic which affects a large percentage of women throughout the world and its real dimensions are unknown to us in their full extent, for victims tend to hide it perhaps due to feeling shame or to seeing themselves overshadowed. This results in the chronification of a problem the which, mostly because of psychological abuse, is extremely difficult to detect.
In this context, children which find themselves inside this dynamic within their homes are a collective specially vulnerable, whether they suffer violence directly or not upon themselves, for the sheer role as witness in this context of continuous violence, affects negatively to the part that families execute as the primary socializing agent, being incapable of bringing to an end the situation which produces such unease and suffering as primary victims, suffering even long term sequels.
A legal framework has been enunciated to protect both women and children when facing such situations, but, to which extent do minors see their needs covered? Are they gender violence too? Which effects will have in their lifes have seen these traumatic occurrences?