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Domestic Violence Fact 10
Violent Indicators
Repeated
phone calls - Where are you?
Presence of gun in house
Forced sex
Verbal threats
Use of alcohol or drugs in and outside the home
Kill your pet
Kill your child
Learn when a man is potentially dangers
When you have to get a protective order
When he tries to isolate you from a support system
When he begins violent behavior.
When the abusers is arrested
Begins combative behavior
Results:
25 to 30%
of an officer's workload can be domestic disputes most involves husband
beating the wife.
Violence grows it does not start and stop, it escalates
1 in 10 women are by their husbands each year
add to the statistics girlfriends and teenagers
Men socialized to violence - street related
Many abusers are small frightened men.
Women confuse love with security you get use to living a certain way and
become afraid of trying to live on your own.
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