A CIS survey estimates about 517,000 children victims of gender violence, chilling figures that are the result of more than two million battered women. These are data extracted from the Macro-Survey of Gender Violence prepared by the Center for Sociological Research at the request of the former Ministry of Equality.
The survey estimates that 10.9% of the female population in Spain, more than 2.15 million women, have suffered abuse at some time in their lives. Of these, seven out of ten said they had minor children, so it is estimated that some 800,000 children are currently seeing violence against their mothers, 10% of the country's child population.
In more than half of the cases, minors, in addition to being witnesses, have suffered violence directly, a percentage that reaches 61.7% among those who have suffered abuse during the previous year.
Therefore, the report concludes that almost 1.5 million Spaniards would have suffered violence in this context and almost 517,000 children who are currently mistreated.
They are little hopeful data: the report explains that the number of those who admit to having suffered abuse compared to 1999 has doubled. And this without counting the cases that do not come to light, many hidden mistreatments in the family environment.
This is a painful picture, as these abused children often suffer physical and psychosocial problems, with obvious consequences in the future (such as the risk of depression).
If any form of violence and mistreatment is abhorrent, it is primed with the weakest and that crumbles the study on gender violence abuse It leaves us worried. Although in the hope that the environment that witnesses-accepts-silences this abuse, reacts and, as the campaign says, has "zero tolerance" to the abuser.
