- Domestic violence can be the use of emotional and/or psychological control on a partner or spouse. (Such as calling names, extreme jealousy, control over clothes/seeing friends, humiliation, and embarrassment.) It often involves threats against a partner or spouse, threatening to harm kids or pets, threatening bodily harm, fits of anger, displaying weapons.
- Most people think of the use of physical violence against a partner or spouse. These are just some of the examples of physically abusive behavior:
- Destroying partner’s belongings,
- Denying partner access to food/fluids/sleep,
- Punching, hitting, kicking,
- Forcing partner to have sex,
- Denying partner needed medical attention.
For a list of warning signs, click here.
- Domestic violence can also be the use of economic control over a partner or spouse.
The abuser often controls family finances, denies access to bank accounts, and prevents the partner/spouse from getting a job.
- Abusers come from all class, ethnic, educational and employment backgrounds.
They can be either male or female.
- Many batterers are also abusive to their children.
- Almost 4 million American women are physically abused in a year.
- Women are more often victims of domestic violence than other physical crimes combined.
- 42 per cent of murdered women are killed by intimate partners.
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