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Domestic Violence
Domestic violence is a pattern
of assaultive and coercive behaviors, including physical,
sexual, and psychological attacks, as well as economic
coercion, that adults or adolescents use against
their intimate partner.
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Domestic violence is:
- A pattern
of behaviors including a variety of tactics – some
physically injurious and some not, some criminal
and some not – carried out in multiple,
sometimes daily episodes.
- A combination
of physical force and terror used by the perpetrator
that causes physical and psychological harm to
the victim and children.
- A pattern
of purposeful behavior, directed at achieving
compliance from or control over the victim.
- Behaviors
perpetrated by adults or adolescents against
their intimate partner in current or former dating,
married, or cohabiting relationships of heterosexuals,
gays and lesbians.
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