It wasn’t until 1999 that the definition of child abuse was further expanded to address the concerns of intimate partner violence(IPV) (Burgess, Regehr, & Roberts, 2013, p. 299). While the expansion allowed for clearer insight on what grounds do specific acts fall under child abuse, it created a sudden rise of reports being dealt with in child protective service agencies. Under those circumstances, this lead to realizing that over $30 million supplementary services needed to be identified to better serve these children (Burgess, Regehr, & Roberts, 2013, p. 298). Fortunately, this change led to agencies establishing a specific set of policies to better intervene with children who are exposed to IPV. First, it was decided upon that if a child’s
