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FACTS ABOUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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- Abusers will gain control over their victims by using verbal attacks causing humiliation and fear.
- Abusers will refer to the victim using degrading terms in private and in front of others.
- Abusers will keep tabs on the victims activities and treat the victim like a "servant".
- Abusers try to control all aspects of the victims life. Through Isolation the abuser is able to gain exclusive access to the victim.
- Abusers will often move their victim and the children away from the victim's family and friends.
- Abusers encourage, coerce, limit contact with and lie to alienate their victim from their support systems (friends and family). These tactics give the abuser the ability to maintain control over their victim.
- Abusers deny the abuse has occurred, minimize it's severity and blame the victim for causing it.
- Abusers convince their victims that is is all their fault.
- Abusers will threaten to harm the victims, their children and other loved ones, including the elderly and family pets.
- Abusers will use body size, gestures, destruction of property and the display of weapons
to force the victim into submission.
- ~Every nine seconds in America a woman is beaten by her spouse, ex husband or significant other. Abusers beat their victims three to four times annually.~
- Domestic Violence is a learned behavior. The abuser can only change if they are willing to choose
to make the life-long commitment to no longer be abusive.
- Domestic Violence can be found in all age, racial, socioeconomic, economical, occupational and religious groups.
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