All Services Provided By The Domestic Violence Intervention Program Are Free and Confidential. Domestic Violence is a pattern of behaviors which people use against their intimate partner to gain control within the relationship. In addition to physical assault, victims describe behaviors such as intimidation, threats, humiliation, sexual abuse, emotional abuse and social isolation. Iowa police respond to more than 6000 incidents a year. It is illegal to commit an assault.
Domestic violence occurs in all social and economic groups.
This means abuse is not more frequent in one class, race or religion. Or a man may be abused by another man in a gay relationship, or a woman by another woman in a lesbian relationship. Whatever the circumstances, abusing an intimate partner is always inappropriate, and criminal when an assault occurs. In that same time we received 3 applications from the survivors of men killed by their female partner. The women are survived by 44 sons and daughters 35 of their children were minors 16 children witnessed the murder of their mother.