Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence is defined by the department of justice as a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another intimate partner. Domestic violence can happen to anyone regardless of race, age, sexual orientation, religion, or gender and affects people of all socioeconomic backgrounds and education levels. When intimate partners are involved in domestic violence, it is difficult to see or understand specific behaviors as being abusive when looking from the inside rather than the outside. To understand these behaviors, we are going to take a deeper look into identifying the abusive behaviors pertaining to each time of abuse.
Domestic violence can be physical, sexual emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person. This includes any behaviors that intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, blame, hurt, injure, or wound someone. Physical abuse can be actions such as hitting, slapping, and shoving, pinching, biting, or any other type of physical contact done by one intimate partner to another. It can also include denying your intimate partner medical care or forcing alcohol or drug use upon him or her. Sexual abuse is attempting any sexual contact or behavior without consent. Actions such as marital rape, attacks on sexual parts of the body, or forcing sex after physical violence has occurred. Emotional abuse consists of actions such as name calling, damaging one’s relationship with their friends, or anything that decreases an individual’s sense of self-worth or self-esteem. Economic abuse is making or attempting to make an individual financially dependent by taking control over all financial resources. In this situation, the person taking control might withhold the others access to money and not allowing the other person to work. Psychological abuse when the abuser
Domestic Violence is defined by the department of justice as a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another intimate partner. Domestic violence can happen to anyone regardless of race, age, sexual orientation, religion, or gender and affects people of all socioeconomic backgrounds and education levels. When intimate partners are involved in domestic violence, it is difficult to see or understand specific behaviors as being abusive when looking from the inside rather than the outside. To understand these behaviors, we are going to take a deeper look into identifying the abusive behaviors pertaining to each time of abuse.
Domestic violence can be physical, sexual emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person. This includes any behaviors that intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, blame, hurt, injure, or wound someone. Physical abuse can be actions such as hitting, slapping, and shoving, pinching, biting, or any other type of physical contact done by one intimate partner to another. It can also include denying your intimate partner medical care or forcing alcohol or drug use upon him or her. Sexual abuse is attempting any sexual contact or behavior without consent. Actions such as marital rape, attacks on sexual parts of the body, or forcing sex after physical violence has occurred. Emotional abuse consists of actions such as name calling, damaging one’s relationship with their friends, or anything that decreases an individual’s sense of self-worth or self-esteem. Economic abuse is making or attempting to make an individual financially dependent by taking control over all financial resources. In this situation, the person taking control might withhold the others access to money and not allowing the other person to work. Psychological abuse when the abuser
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