About 10 million people are physically abused each year in the United States.
At any given time, 50% of CASA’s Shelter residents are children.
Domestic violence is used for one purpose: to gain and maintain control.
Through acts of verbal humiliation, intimidation, isolation, stalking, and physical harm, one person can systematically control another. Abuse is a dangerous game with impossible rules for survivors. Perpetrators often manipulate current or former intimate partners or other family members through learned behaviors.
Verbal, physical, sexual, financial, or emotional – domestic violence isn’t always a singular action; often it’s a series or pattern of exploitative tactics forcing survivors to act in undesirable ways or prevent them from doing what they want.
Warning Signs
DOES YOUR PARTNER CONTROL YOU BY CAUSING OR THREATENING TO
- Monitor your calls, texts, or mail?
- Keep you from friends or family?
- Take your money, control how you spend it or prevent you from working?
- Humiliate you in front of others?
- “Out” you or belittle your identity?
- Harm you, your loved ones or pets?
- Harm themselves?
- Place blame on you for their harmful behavior?
- Prevent you from seeking medical treatment?
- Force you to do something sexual that you don’t want to do?
- Break your things?
