Domestic Violence

A pattern of behavior employed in any relationship to acquire or maintain power and control over an intimate partner is known as domestic abuse, sometimes known as “domestic violence” or “intimate partner violence.” Abuse is defined as coercive, threatening, or harmful physical, sexual, emotional, or psychological behavior toward another person. This includes any actions that terrify, intimidate, manipulate, inflict harm, humiliate, or place blame on another person. Anyone can experience domestic abuse, regardless of their ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, or gender. It can happen in a variety of situations, including ones between married, cohabiting, or dating couples. People from various socioeconomic origins and educational levels are impacted by domestic abuse.

Domestic abuse may affect everyone, regardless of their age, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. Any other household member, including a kid or other relative, may also be a victim of domestic violence.

Domestic violence often takes the form of a pattern of abusive behavior toward an intimate partner in a romantic or familial relationship, where the abuser exerts control and power over the victim.

Domestic violence may take the form of mental, physical, financial, or sexual abuse. Rarely are incidents isolated; instead, their frequency and intensity tend to increase with time. Abuse in the home can result in fatalities or severe physical harm.

Inflicting continual criticism, disparaging one’s skills, using obscene language, destroying a partner’s relationship with the kids, or preventing a partner from seeing friends and family are all examples of emotional abuse.

You might be in a relationship that is emotionally abusive if your spouse:

• Refers to you negatively, insults you, or criticizes you frequently.

• Attempts to cut you off from friends or relatives.

• Keeps tabs on your whereabouts, phone calls, and social interactions.

• Has financial sway or won’t distribute funds.

• Requires you to request authorization.

• Makes threats to harm you, the kids, your loved ones, or your pets.

Psychological abuse includes intimidating others, threatening to hurt oneself, a partner, or children, destroying property and/or pets, playing “mind games,” or isolating oneself from friends, family, school, and/or job.

A partner is physically abused when they are hit, kicked, burned, grabbed, pinched, pushed, slapped, pulled their hair, bit, denied medical attention, forced to consume alcohol or drugs, or subjected to other physical force.