What is Domestic Violence?

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What are examples of domestic violence

What is Domestic Violence?

Domestic violence encompasses a range of behaviors:

*Physical violence such as slapping, punching, hair pulling, or shoving
*forced or coerced sexual acts or violence such as unwanted fondling or intercourse, or jokes and insults aimed at sexuality
*Threats of violence including threatening to hit, harm, use a weapon on another, or tell others confidential information
*psychological abuse including attacks on self-esteem, controlling or limiting another's behavior, repeated insults, and interrogation

   

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