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Behaviors that do not cause domestic violence

Behaviors that do not cause domestic violence | How Children Ask for Help | Cycle Of Violence | Facts on Dating Violence | Domestic Violence Facts | How does domestic violence affect children? | Signs Of A Battering Personality | What is Domestic Violence? | Why Women Stay

Alcohol and Drug Use

Alcohol or drugs alone do not cause individuals to become violent (the one exception to this is crack).
Batterers often use alcohol or drugs as an excuse for their behavior.
Many victims do believe if the batterer got treatment for alcohol and drug addiction that the abuse would stop.
Unfortunately, studies show that treating addiction alone does not stop domestic violence.

Anger

Domestic violence is not always caused by anger.
Some episodes occur when the abuser is angry or emotionally charged, but other occur when he is not. This shows inconsistent patterns of violence.
Some abusive behaviors are carried out calmly to gain the victim’s compliance.
Sometimes displays of anger are simply tactics intended to intimidate the victim.

Abuse as a child

Victims may or may not have been abused as children. There is no evidence that previous victimization either as adults or as children results in women seeking out or causing current victimization.
However, domestic violence is often passed from generation to generation.

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