What is Domestic Violence?
Domestic Violence is about power and control. An abuser uses various forms of abuse such as physical, verbal, emotional and sexual to obtain and maintain control over a partner or spouse. Battering is rarely an isolated event, it tends to increase and become more violent and battering is the single major cause of injury to women, more prevalent than rape, mugging or auto accidents.
Domestic violence is a widespread societal problem with consequences reaching far beyond the realm of the family. Every 15 minutes a women is battered in the United States and each year violence against women results in more than two million injuries and approximately 1,300 deaths.