 Abuse has many facets
Why Women Stay
Cycle of Violence
Do Children Know?
What is Battering?
Battering is the use of physical,
verbal, psychological, and/or sexual force to control and maintain power over another person. It may range from
verbal abuse to physical acts such as slapping, kicking, punching, throwing around, knifing or killing.
Battering is not always physically violent, but it is always psychologically abusive. It almost always becomes
more severe, frequent and dangerous unless some kind of intervention takes place.
Battering occurs among all racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups.
What is Abuse?
"Abuse" will be used in this definition to indicate violence inflicted upon a woman by a man with whom she is
married or cohabiting. Abuse can be found among married and unmarried heterosexuals, lesbians and gays. It cuts
across geographic, religious, economic, and racial barriers. Abuse is a pattern of control issue.
Physical abuse is: A) pushing, scratching, slapping, hitting, punching, choking, kicking,
holding, biting, or throwing objects at her; B) locking her out of the house, driving recklessly when she is in the
car, threatening to hurt her with a weapon, abandoning her in dangerous places, refusing to help when she is
pregnant, injured or sick.
Emotional abuse is : ignoring her feelings, ridiculing her beliefs, calling names: (fat, ugly,
slut, stupid, etc), withholding approval, threatening to take children away, telling her about his affairs,
manipulating her with lies, threatening to leave, taking car keys or money away, saying no one else will want her
if she leaves, keeping her from working or going to school, humiliating her in public or private, abusing her pets
or children, driving her family or friends away, threatens to harm her if she left, and threatens that he will
commit suicide if she left.
Sexual abuse is: insisting that she dress in uncomfortable sexual way, calling her sexual
derogatory names, making jokes about her body, holding her down and forcing sex on her, torturing her in connection
with sex, criticizing her love making, forcing her to strip, forcing unwanted sex acts, withholding sex, insisting
on unwanted touching.
 Sometimes we see these signs in our friends, family members, co-workers,
our children and their friends. Please be aware of date violence and rape. Abuse may occur as early as junior
high school and high school. Be aware of physical bruises or other signs of injury other than the norm, even
truancy or missed classes and missed days from work. Sudden changes in isolation or in excessive use of
alcohol or drugs may also be signs that could easily be missed.
We at HealWithin are specialized to hold your space sacred and safe. We are trained to help you through these
phases or get you the immediate help you may need.
Contact us if you or any of your loved ones demonstrate or show any signs of abuse. It does not have to continue
- nor should you take it.
YOU DO have a CHOICE. Make the right one.
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