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About Domestic Violence

Domestic violence is a pattern of physical assaults, threats, and coercive behaviors used to maintain control over a current or former intimate partner. Abusive behavior includes the use of physical and sexual violence, threats and intimidation, isolation, emotional abuse, and economic control. Many of these different forms of domestic violence can be occurring at any one time within the same intimate relationship.

Nationally, 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men report experiencing sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner during their lifetime.*

*The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, Centers for Disease Control, 2015 Data Brief.