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DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 2012 - SECT 10

Meaning of exposed to domestic violence

10 Meaning of exposed to domestic violence

A child is
"exposed" to domestic violence if the child sees or hears domestic violence or otherwise experiences the effects of domestic violence.

Examples of being exposed to domestic violence
• overhearing threats of physical abuse
• overhearing repeated derogatory taunts, including racial taunts
• experiencing financial stress arising from economic abuse
• seeing or hearing an assault
• comforting or providing assistance to a person who has been physically abused
• observing bruising or other injuries of a person who has been physically abused
• cleaning up a site after property has been damaged
• being present at a domestic violence incident that is attended by police officers



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