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Abuse during pregnancy, whether physical, verbal or emotional, produces many adverse physical and psychological effects for both the mother and fetus. Domestic violence during pregnancy is categorized as abusive behavior towards a pregnant woman, where the pattern of abuse can often change in terms of severity and frequency of violence.
The physical effects of domestic violence on children, unlike the effects of direct abuse, can start when they are a fetus in their mother's womb, which can result in low infant birth weights, premature birth, excessive bleeding, and fetal death due to the mother's physical trauma and emotional stress.
The results reported that 57% of parental abuse was physical; using a weapon was at 17%; throwing items was at 5% and verbal abuse was at 22%. With 82% of the abuse being against mothers (five times greater than against fathers), and 11% of the abusers were under the age of 10 years.
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Child Protective Services had been in contact with the family dating back to 2014 after THC was found in the system of their eldest newborn child. [2]Mary Welch weighed only 8 pounds (3.6 kg) at the time of her death, only 1.25 pounds (0.57 kg) more than at the time of her birth ten months earlier. [3]
The murder of Elisa Izquierdo occurred in November 1995 in Manhattan, New York City. [3] Izquierdo was a six-year-old Puerto Rican–Cuban-American girl [2] who died of a brain hemorrhage [2] inflicted by her mother, Awilda Lopez, at the peak of a prolonged and escalating campaign of physical, mental, emotional, and sexual abuse conducted between 1994 and 1995.