What Is Domestic Violence?
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Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behavior that can include willful intimidation, battery, and physical or sexual assault perpetrated by one intimate partner against another. Anyone can be abused, regardless of age, gender, ethnic group, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, income level, job skills, or level of formal education. Batterers may be spouses, ex-spouses, partners, or casual dates. Domestic violence varies in intensity from one person to the next, and occurs when one person in a relationship attempts to gain power, domination and control over another using abusive tactics.
Always remember that abuse is never, ever your fault. You have the right to feel safe in your relationship and to live your life free from violence.
The YWCA is the sole licensed provider of domestic abuse services in Greenwich. All treatment for the many victims of domestic violence in the community is free, confidential and bi-lingual. Our goal is to ensure safe homes and healthy relationships.
DO YOU KNOW THAT IN THE USA -
- A woman is abused every 10 seconds; 605 women are abused every hour; 14,520 every day; and 5.3 million are abused per year
- Domestic violence is the largest single cause of injury to women and 1 out of 3 women are raped and/or physically assaulted by an intimate partner at some point in their lives
- Intimate partner violence results in nearly 2 million injuries and 1,300 deaths nationwide every year
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