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What Is Domestic Violence?

Domestic Violence is...

Any pattern of behaviors that attempts to control an intimate partner or family member through the use of fear, manipulation, isolation, intimidation, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and/or verbal abuse.
Its sole purpose is to establish power and control over another person.
Typically this control starts out slowly and increases over time.
By the time physical abuse is present, verbal, emotional, and sexual abuse have already been established.