Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence Can Happen To Anyone
Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another partner. The relationship can be between a married couple, cohabitating partners, dating partners, or relatives. It can involve children or siblings. Domestic violence can happen to anyone – regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, education, profession, or socioeconomic status.
3 in 10 Women
In the US have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by a partner and reported it having a related impact on their functioning.
12 Million+
Women and men are victims of rape, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States over the course of a single year.
1 in 10 Men
In the US have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by a partner and reported it having a related impact on their functioning.
Almost Half
Of all women and men in the US have experienced psychological aggression by an intimate partner in their lifetime.
Statistics were collected from www.CDC.gov*
Types of Domestic Violence:
Physical Violence
Non-accidental use of force that results in bodily injury, pain or impairment.
Examples: Pushing, pinching, hitting, strangling, using weapons, and/or throwing things.
Sexual Abuse
Any unwanted sexual activity or touching.
Examples: Kissing if you do not want to be kissed by that person and/or being guilt tripped and pressured into doing something you don’t want to do.
Verbal Abuse
Use of words, body language, or behavior to cause emotional distress over the phone, or through other forms of messaging.
Examples: Threatening to hurt someone, calling someone derogatory names, telling lies and/or spreading
rumors.
Mental Abuse
Often looks like playing mind games or using double talk with someone with deliberately obscure language.
Examples: Gaslighting which includes manipulating or lying to make someone question their sanity.
Emotional Abuse
When someone purposefully withholds emotional interaction or support.
Examples: Belittling or mocking someone’s emotional expressions, criticizing someone’s body type or
physical features, humiliating someone in public or online, and/or blaming everything on someone, guilt-tripping.
Monitoring
When someone tries to control what another person does.
Examples: Forcing you to share passwords to accounts, share location, constantly texting or calling and expecting immediate responses, saying you can’t spend time with certain people, and/or making you delete people out of your phone or friends/followers lists.
Spiritual Abuse
The misuse of beliefs or disallowing a partner to practice their faith.
Examples: mocking the religion chosen by the victim, using quotes from religious material to manipulate behavior, and/or not allowing a partner to go to religious services
Financial Abuse
When someone controls another individual by controlling their money.
Examples: Withholding income from someone, preventing someone from getting more education or a better job, or guilt-tripping someone into buying or paying for everything.
Pet Abuse
To harm pets with the intent to hurt or intimidate another.
Examples: Kicking a pet, holding a pet out the window, slamming a pet in a door, and/or threatening others in the home by physically abusing the animal.
Destruction Of Property
The breaking of items to hurt or intimidate another.
Examples: Threatening another by a show of force, punching a hole in the wall near another, breaking or threatening to break items that are important to the other; family pictures, gifts, family heirlooms.
If you or someone you know might be experiencing domestic violence, call or text our advocates.
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