Does your partner ever…. Put you down? Control what you do, who you talk to or where you go? Look at you or do things that scare you? Hit you in any way? Stop you from seeing your friends or family members? Control the money in the relationship? Make all of the decisions without your input or consideration of your needs? Tell you that you’re a bad parent or threaten to take away your children? Prevent you from working or attending school? Act like the abuse is no big deal, deny the abuse or tell you it’s your own fault? Destroy your property or threaten to kill your pets? Intimidate you with guns, knives or other weapons? Attempt to force you to drop criminal charges? Threaten to commit suicide, or threaten to kill you? If so. Seek help.
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Domestic abuse can happen to anyone anywhere. It can happen in the bus, on the streets, and especially at home. It also happens to many migrants. It also does not matter what age, sexual orientation, religion, and not even gender because both male and female can be abused, but women are more susceptible to it as they have been seen as the inferior sex for centuries.
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Domestic Abuse is the result of raising your sons to make them think they are superior and dominant to women and should be the providers, while the wives should stay in the kitchen. It creates a thirst for control and power that is only satisfied through violence. Throughout history, women have always been oppressed from achieving their aspirations and speaking up against abuse, for that is taboo, especially marital rape.
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People define relationships in many different ways, but for a relationship to be healthy you need to have safe communication, trust between each other, and boundaries to allow for growth and goals to be achieved.
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- More than a third (30,000) of the women intentionally killed in 2017 were killed by their current or former intimate partner - Adult women account for nearly half (49 per cent) of all human trafficking victims detected globally. Women and girls together account for 72 per cent, with girls representing more than three out of every four child trafficking victims. - It is estimated that there are 650 million women and girls in the world today who were married before age 18 - At least 200 million women and girls aged 15-49 have undergone female genital mutilation in the 30 countries with representative data on prevalence - Approximately 15 million adolescent girls (aged 15 to 19) worldwide have experienced forced sex - Twenty-three per cent of female undergraduate university students reported having experienced sexual assault or sexual misconduct
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- https://www.rainn.org/articles/intimate-partner-sexual-violence - https://www.thehotline.org/ - https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/facts-and-figures - http://www.uniteforsight.org/gender-power/module3 - https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1559&context=jiws -
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