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What Is
Domestic Violence?
Domestic
Violence is abuse by one’s partner or ex-partner. It can be:
Emotional
and Verbal
- Put-downs
- Name-calling
- Threats
- Isolation
from family and friends
- Withholding
money or other important belongings
- Threatening
to take children away
- Using
children to spy on the other partner
- Threatening
to hurt the children
Physical
- Pushing,
slapping
- Punching,
kicking
- Choking
- Use of
weapons
Sexual
- Unwanted
touching
- Rape
- Sexual
put-downs
- Affairs
- Violence
can often go in cycles - tension, abuse, honeymoon.
- Teens
often get involved in abusive dating relationships.
- Teens
and adult women are at greatest risk when pregnant.
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