Domestic Violence

Domestic abusive behavior is generally defined as a pattern of incidents that is unhealthy. Controlling, threatening, coercive behavior is often accompanied by violence and psychological warfare in order to break a person down.

Mostly, it’s about control. Through the fear tools in the conditioning, they seek to take complete control of you to feed and deal with their own issues about relationships.

What starts as simple verbal abuse, and emotional abuse progresses to assault rape even murder.

Domestic Violence is a prolonged course of willful acts of 3 tactics:

Intimidation
Control
Isolation

Root causes of domestic violence include discrimination and gender inequality. There are many individuals, relational, community, and societal risk factors that increase the likelihood of victimization and domestic violence perpetration.

Domestic Violence Signs:

Signs of Domestic violence we want you to look out for:

Checks your phone, email, or social networks without your permission

Decides what you wear or eat or how you spend money

Prevents or discourages you from going to work or school or seeing your family or friends

Humiliates you on purpose in front of others

Destroys your things

Threatens to hurt you, your children, other loved ones, or your pets

Hurts you physically (e.g., hitting, beating, punching, pushing, kicking), including with a weapon.

Physical

Inflicting or attempting to inflict physical injury

Psychological

Instilling or attempting to instill fear through intimidation, threatening physical harm to self, victim, and/or others, harassment,

Isolating or attempting to isolate victim from friends, family, school, and/or work leading to the feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and helplessness in the victim.

Economic

Making or attempting to make the victim financially dependent

example: maintaining total control over financial resources including victim’s earned income or resources received through public assistance or social security, withholding money and/or access to money, requiring accountability and justification for all money spent, forced welfare fraud, withholding information about family running up bills for which the victim is responsible for payment.

Sexual

Coercing or attempting to coerce any sexual contact without consent.

Emotional

Undermining or attempting to undermine victim sense of worth

example: constant criticism, belittling victim’s abilities and competency, name-calling, insults, put-downs, silent treatment, manipulating victim’s feelings and emotions to induce guilt, subverting a partner’s relationship with the children, repeatedly making and breaking promises

Every day, there are almost 20 people a minute that are physically abused by someone close to them. Which comes to about 10 million women and men a year that are victims of domestic violence.

As many as 1 in 4 women and 1 in 9 men face severe domestic violence from an intimate partner, resulting in injury, stress disorders, contracting sexually transmitted diseases and many other devastating results.

Domestic Violence

Top Statistics in U.S

1 in 7 women and 1 in 18 men at some point in their lives, will feel threatened or fearful that they may be harmed or killed while being stalked by a past intimate partner.

On an average day, there are more than 20,000 phone calls are made to domestic violence hotlines across the nation. Domestic violence concerning intimate partners accounts for 15% of all violent crimes.