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Recantation rates and conviction statistics indicate that most abusers are not consistently prosecuted which keeps victims and their children in violent homes.  Children who witness family violence are affected in ways similar to children who are physically abused.  Effects of witnessing violence are: self-abuse, truancy, aggression, delinquency, regression, eating disorders, and posttraumatic stress disorder…to name a few.  Research has also found that children from homes where domestic violence occurs are physically or sexually abused and/or seriously neglected at a rate 15 times the national average (McKay, 1994).  Forensic interviews for child witnesses allow investigators to corroborate statements made by victims and to determine if any additional abuse has occurred.  The interview also allows the child to reprocess the trauma in a safe environment which creates a new association with the experience of disclosing.  Family support advocates are then able to provide crisis intervention and community referrals in the moment.