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What is Domestic Violence

Domestic Violence is a violent or aggressive behavior within the home, typically involving the violent abuse of a spouse or partner. 

Domestic Violence is the willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or other abusive behavior as part of a systematic pattern of power and control perpetrated by one intimate partner against another. It includes physical violence, sexual violence, psychological violence, and emotional abuse. The frequency and severity of domestic violence can vary dramatically; however, the one constant component of domestic violence is one partner’s consistent efforts to maintain power and control over the other.
When you think of Domestic Violence we always think of a women being hurt by a man, but men also suffer from abusive women. 


Statistics show:

On average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States.

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1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have been victims of [some form of] physical violence by an intimate partner within their lifetime.

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1 in 5 women and 1 in 7 men have been victims of severe physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime.

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1 in 7 women and 1 in 18 men have been stalked by an intimate partner during their lifetime to the point in which they felt very fearful or believed that they or someone close to them would be harmed or killed.

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