Comparisons of the effects on POW’s in Korea with Domestic Violence

Domestic Violence

Threats

Occasional indulgences

Enforcing trivial demands

Degradation

Isolation

Displays of total power

Disability

Exhaustion

Distorted perspective

These are just a few of the ways in which degrading and intimidating behaviour is carried out by the abuser to keep the abused confused and made to trust them.

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