But after the headlines are forgotten, the issue of domestic violence is too often ignored. For many women, their stories never make the newspapers. Daily abuses, threats, humiliations do not make the headlines. Even physical injuries, broken bones, lacerations, hospitalizations are not reported to the public. Yet every day, Korean American women and children are subjected to these abuses.
Domestic violence takes many forms.
It can be the occasional slap or push. It can be threats of physical harm or even death. It can be insults and curses. It can be threats to deport someone, take away the children, ruin one's reputation. Domestic violence is not only physical threats or harm.