xtremeroswellia

I've changed my default icon for the month, and I urge you to snag one of the icons from this post I made last year: http://xtremeroswellia.livejournal.com/398905.html to show your support for victims and survivors of domestic violence. It really is a world-wide epidemic and it DOES affect everyone regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion or income level.

And this is the website for the organization which I work:

http://www.doveinc.org

Domestic 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. )

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