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What Is Domestic Violence? |
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Domestic
violence means any violence between current or former partners in an
intimate relationship, wherever and whenever it occurs. Domestic
Violence is more widespread than is realized.
Both women and men experience it although 95% are women and
children. Some
people think that domestic violence is just physical but it’s not.
It can include Physical, Emotional, Sexual and Financial abuse.
These all come from the abusers desire for power and control and
can be: Physical
abuse can
mean hitting, kicking, punching, slapping, biting, strangling, hitting
with objects, hair pulling, stabbing, attempted murder and MURDER.
Emotional
abuse shows itself in shouting, threatening, repeated criticism about
everything, putting down constantly, sleep deprivation, checking up on
everything, humiliation, jealousy, no privacy, being constantly blamed for
everything. Sexual
abuse is devastating. It
includes forced sex, rape, using objects to sexually assault, forced
prostitution, incest, forced sex with others\in front of others. Financial
abuse means
not being allowed money, not being allowed to work, stealing money and
property from the abused person, only allowed to have money for basic
necessities like food. Most abused individuals suffer from one or more of these types of abuse. In the final analysis the trauma has lasting or long-term scars that may never heal. It might take just one small thing from the above to happen and everything will come flooding back and you begin to wonder if anything will ever get better.
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