Domestic violence can involve threats, pushing, punching, slapping, choking, sexual assault, and assault with weapons. It is rarely a one-time occurrence, and usually escalates in frequency and severity over time. Domestic violence results in more injuries that require medical treatment that rape, auto accidents, and muggings combined. Moreover, thirty percent of the women murdered in this country are killed by their husbands or boyfriends. That kind of behavior does not go on in my neighborhood.
Domestic violence occurs among all ages, races, and religions.
It happens to people of all educational and income levels. She must be doing something to provoke his violence. Whatever problems exist in a relationship, the use of violence to resolve them is never justified or acceptable. For most of us, the decision to end a relationship is not an easy one. A battered woman s emotional ties to her partner may be strong, supporting her hope that the violence will end.