Domestic and family violence is a pattern of abusive behavior in intimate relationships or other types of family relationships where one person thinks he or she dominates the other person and the person who perceives themselves as powerful creates fear. It is also known as domestic violence, family violence or intimate partner violence.
This type of violence can occur in different types of relationships, for example: between husband and wife or between girlfriend and boy friend; between adults and children or adults and aged parents; or members of the family (extended family) such as aunts, aunts, uncles, maternal uncles and grandparents, maternal grandparents; or between people living together in a non-sexual relationship.
It is often referred to as a pattern of coercion and control. Sometimes abusers are called ‘violators’.
It is not always the case that domestic or family violence ends when a relationship breaks up, so it can happen between ex-partners as well.
Abusers employ a number of tactics to maintain their dominance and control, such as:
Physical abuse, eg strangling, beating, pushing and threatening to harm.
Acts of sexual violence, coercive sexual contact, or forcing someone to perform sexual acts they do not wish to do.
Emotional abuse, abusing and humiliating, disrespectful behaviour.
Isolate from family and society, or resort to family or society to intimidate. This may include sending text messages or posting on Facebook.
Tracking or monitoring ‘every move’ on the Internet, through social media, including by using GPS tracking devices.
psychological abuse, such as accusing the person being abused of that behavior; telling the person being abused that they have mental health problems or anxiety disorders; Manipulating reality or intentionally distorting reality; moving personal items or furniture and then denying that it has been done; and deny that abuse has occurred.
financial abuse. such as refusing to pay living expenses or ‘money to run the household’; prevent someone from working; manipulating the child support system; Threatening someone to sign legal or financial documents that owed that person a debt; To climb on someone’s head while demanding money (put pressure continuously).
Not allowing someone to follow their religious belief or faith, or forcing them to adopt a faith or religious belief that is not their own.
Harm or threaten to harm loved ones, including children.
Harm or threaten to harm pets.
Legal abuse, such as using the family law system in one’s own interest to intimidate, exhaust, exploit, or power down someone.
There are unique methods of control that abusers can employ in each relationship. Withholding a supply of drugs is a pattern of control in some relationships. Manipulative behavior, such as threatening suicide or self-harm when one wants to end a relationship, is also part of a pattern of control. In a situation where a disabled woman is dependent on her own help or care, to withhold that care or to manipulate the care in such a way as to establish a pattern of control or control, that too is an unacceptable use of power. Undermining motherhood by keeping babies calm or by stopping breastfeeding is a form of domestic and family violence. CIDD goes to the place where domestic violence is happening, creates public awareness in that family and makes efforts to keep the family united.
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