Domestic Violence
What is it?
Domestic violence is controlling behaviour and includes all kinds of physical, sexual, emotional and financial abuse within all kinds of intimate relationships. It harms women and men.
It wrecks thousands of lives.
Domestic violence is rarely a one-off event. Physical and sexual abuse tends to increase in frequency and severity over time, sometimes only ending when one person actually "kills the other". Some other forms of abusive or controlling behaviour may be ongoing. This chain of events needs to be broken.
What does the Royal Air Force class as domestic violence?
'The emotional, physical, sexual, psychological or financial abuse of a person by their partner, family member or someone with whom there is or has been a relationship'.
Characteristics:
- They are rarely isolated occurrences.
- They tend to be repeated over a period of time.
- The abuse often increases in severity.
- Common during woman's pregnancy.
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