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  2. Domestic violence - Wikipedia

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    Domestic violence is often used as a synonym for intimate partner violence, which is committed by one of the people in an intimate relationship against the other person, and can take place in relationships or between former spouses or partners. In its broadest sense, domestic violence also involves violence against children, parents, or the ...

  3. Domestic violence in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Victims of Domestic Violence marker, Courthouse Square, Quincy, Florida Domestic violence is a form of violence that occurs within a domestic relationship. Although domestic violence often occurs between partners in the context of an intimate relationship, it may also describe other household violence, such as violence against a child, by a child against a parent or violence between siblings ...

  4. Intimate partner violence - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Expanded definition of domestic violence could help survivors ...

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    The Violence Against Women Act this year could include a clear definition of economic abuse, a type of control that can prevent survivors of domestic violence from reclaiming their lives.

  6. Outline of domestic violence - Wikipedia

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    Intimate terrorism (IT) – pattern of ongoing control using emotional, physical and other forms of domestic violence. It is what was traditionally the definition of domestic violence depicted in the "Power and Control Wheel" [43] which illustrates the different and inter-related forms of abuse. [44]

  7. Domestic Violence Statistics: The Horrific Reality

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    If you or a loved one is a victim of abuse, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233, or log on to thehotline.org for help, or call 911 if physical abuse is happening or imminent.

  8. Violence against women in the United States - Wikipedia

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    These acts of violence include sexual assault, domestic violence, and sex trafficking. [36] The US Department of Justice found that 84% of Native American and Alaskan Native women have suffered some form of violence. [37] [38] This means Native women are 1.2 times more likely to experience violence than Non-Hispanic white women.

  9. Violence against women - Wikipedia

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    The convention also provides a definition of domestic violence as "all acts of physical, sexual, psychological or economic violence that occur within the family or domestic unit or between former or current spouses or partners, whether or not the perpetrator shares or has shared the same residence with the victim". [334]