Family violence abuse occurs every 12 seconds in the United States. More women are injured annually by abuse than any other cause. One of every two Texas women is beaten in her lifetime.
Family violence crosses all racial, ethnic, geographic, religious, and socio-economic boundaries.
Other speakers were from the Family Abuse Center of Waco. Participants learned that battering is pattern of coercive control that one person exercises over another. Battering is behavior that physically harms, arouses fear, prevents a woman from doing what she wishes, or forces her to be behave in ways she does not want. Battering includes the use of physical and sexual violence, threats and intimidation, emotional abuse, and economic deprivation. The group also learned about the characteristics of the victim and the abuser.