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Domestic violence, also known as domestic abuse, can take many forms including physical, sexual, psychological, and emotional abuse. It affects people regardless of gender, size, or strength and often involves a pattern of behaviors used to establish power and control over the other person through fear and intimidation. Warning signs may include feeling afraid of one's partner, being humiliated or criticized, being forced into unwanted sexual activity, or being isolated from friends and family. Anyone can be a victim of domestic violence and there are organizations available to help.
Domestic violence and abuse new
- 2. Domestic violence , also known as domestic abuse , spousal abuse , battering , family violence , and intimate partner violence (IPV) , is broadly defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one or both partners in an intimate relationship such as marriage, dating, family, or cohabitation.
- 3. Domestic violence and abuse can happen to anyone, regardless of size, gender, or strength. This is especially true when the abuse is psychological, rather than physical. Emotional abuse is often minimized, yet it can leave deep and lasting scars.
- 4. Noticing and acknowledging the warning signs and symptoms of domestic violence and abuse is the FIRST STEP to ending it. No one should live in fear of the person they love. If you recognize yourself or someone you know in the following warning signs and descriptions of abuse, don’t hesitate to reach out. There is help available.
- 6. Do you: feel afraid of your partner much of the time? avoid certain topics out of fear of angering your partner? feel that you can’t do anything right for your partner? believe that you deserve to be hurt or mistreated? wonder if you’re the one who is crazy? feel emotionally numb or helpless?
- 7. Does your partner: humiliate or yell at you? criticize you and put you down? treat you so badly that you’re embarrassed for your friends or family to see? ignore or put down your opinions or accomplishments? blame you for their own abusive behavior? see you as property or a sex object, rather than as a person?
- 8. Does your partner: have a bad and unpredictable temper? hurt you, or threaten to hurt or kill you? threaten to take your children away or harm them? threaten to commit suicide if you leave? force you to have sex? destroy your belongings?
- 9. Does your partner: act excessively jealous and possessive? control where you go or what you do? keep you from seeing your friends or family? limit your access to money, the phone, or the car? constantly check up on you?
- 10. When people talk about domestic violence, they are often referring to the physical abuse of a spouse or intimate partner. Physical abuse is the use of physical force against someone in a way that injures or endangers that person. Physical assault or battering is a crime, whether it occurs inside or outside of the family.
- 11. Sexual abuse is a form of physical abuse Any situation in which you are forced to participate in unwanted, unsafe, or degrading sexual activity is sexual abuse. Forced sex, even by a spouse or intimate partner with whom you also have consensual sex, is an act of aggression and violence. Furthermore, people whose partners abuse them physically and sexually are at a higher risk of being seriously injured or killed.
- 12. When people think of domestic abuse, they often picture battered women who have been physically assaulted. Not all abusive relationships involve violence. Just because you’re not battered and bruised doesn’t mean you’re not being abused. Many men and women suffer from emotional abuse, which is no less destructive Unfortunately, emotional abuse is often minimized or overlooked—even by the person being abused
- 13. The aim of emotional abuse is to chip away at your feelings of self-worth and independence. It includes verbal abuse such as yelling, name-calling, blaming, and shaming. Isolation, intimidation, and controlling behavior also fall under emotional abuse. In fact, emotional abuse can be just as damaging as physical abuse—sometimes even more so.
- 15. People who are being abused may: Seem afraid or anxious to please their partner. Go along with everything their partner says and does. Check in often with their partner to report where they are and what they’re doing. Receive frequent, harassing phone calls from their partner. Talk about their partner’s temper, jealousy, or possessiveness.
- 16. People who are being physically abused may: Have frequent injuries, with the excuse of “accidents.” Frequently miss work, school, or social occasions, without explanation. Dress in clothing designed to hide bruises or scars (e.g. wearing long sleeves in the summer or sunglasses indoors).
- 17. People who are being isolated by their abuser may: Be restricted from seeing family and friends. Rarely go out in public without their partner. Have limited access to money, credit cards, or the car
- 18. People who are being abused may: Have very low self-esteem, even if they used to be confident. Show major personality changes (e.g. an outgoing person becomes withdrawn). Be depressed, anxious, or suicidal.
- 19. If you suspect that someone you know is being abused, SPEAK UP! If you’re hesitating, keep in mind that expressing your concern will let the person know that you care and may even save his or her life.