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In Rhode Island, Article § 11-37-2 "First degree sexual assault", has four subsections; while subsections 2, 3 and 4 apply to spouses, subsection 1 does not; it reads: "The accused, not being the spouse, knows or has reason to know that the victim is mentally incapacitated, mentally disabled, or physically helpless."
If one spouse desires control and power in the relationship, the spouse may resort to abuse. [189] This may include coercion and threats, intimidation, emotional abuse, economic abuse, isolation, making light of the situation and blaming the spouse, using children (threatening to take them away), and behaving as "master of the castle".
A lawful marriage legitimizes the conjugal act itself, so "marital rape" is a contradiction in terms. While a physical assault against a spouse may be charged, such is distinct from the delegitimization of conjugal union itself as rape. Marriage then should not be defined as an "exemption" to rape but as "contradictory" to it.
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Economic abuse can occur across all socio-economic levels. [75] The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence in the United States reports that: 25% - 50% of victims of abuse from a partner have lost their job due to domestic violence. 35% - 56% of victims of domestic violence are harassed at work by their partners.
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is domestic violence by a current or former spouse or partner in an intimate relationship against the other spouse or partner. [1] [2] IPV can take a number of forms, including physical, verbal, emotional, economic and sexual abuse.
The law does not address spousal rape. [34] Article 353 of the Penal Code explicitly excludes spousal rape. [law 13] Bangladesh: No [35] The law prohibits rape of a female by a male and physical spousal abuse, but the law excludes marital rape if the female is above 13. [36]
The authors found that when partner abuse is defined broadly to include emotional abuse, any kind of hitting, and who hits first, partner abuse is relatively even. They also stated if one examines who is physically harmed and how seriously, expresses more fear, and experiences subsequent psychological problems, domestic violence is ...
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