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So what IS domestic violence?
Oct. 2nd, 2006 09:41 amDomestic violence is a pattern of coercive control that one person excercises over another.
It is not limited to physical violence, but also includes verbal abuse, emotional abuse and economic abuse. It can be progressive social isolation, deprivation and intimidation. Remember that domestic violence is a power game; its purpose for the abuser is to control the victim in whatever form(s) it takes.
( Types of abuse. )
It is not limited to physical violence, but also includes verbal abuse, emotional abuse and economic abuse. It can be progressive social isolation, deprivation and intimidation. Remember that domestic violence is a power game; its purpose for the abuser is to control the victim in whatever form(s) it takes.
( Types of abuse. )
