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Remember My Name: The Truth about Domestic Violence

Forms of Domestic Violence

Psychological Abuse

Emotional Abuse

Why is Domestic Violence so Prevalent?

  • Constant criticism
  • Belittling
  • Insults
  • Put downs
  • Name calling
  • Threats

The reasons why domestic violence is so prevalent can explain why victims stay in the abusive relationship

  • Controlling access to friends, school, work, or family
  • Forced isolation and imprisonment
  • Intimidation
  • Using and manipulating a person’s fear of physical harm
  • Threats to harm others
  • Threats of suicide
  • Personal beliefs and values
  • Financial
  • Generational values
  • Unsuccessful prior attempts
  • Fear
  • Substance Abuse

Who is Affected ?

Defining Domestic Violence

Domestic Violence does not discriminate, it can effect:

CYCLE OF VIOLENCE

  • Adults
  • Teens (Teen Dating Violence)
  • Elderly
  • Children
  • Disabled

Physical Abuse

Witnessing violence between one’s parents

or caretakers is the strongest risk factor of

transmitting violent behavior from one

generation to the next.

Sexual Abuse

Domestic violence is the willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or other abusive behavior perpetrated by an intimate partner against another. It is an epidemic affecting individuals in every community, regardless of age, economic status, race, religion, nationality or educational background.

Violence against women is often accompanied by emotionally abusive and controlling behavior, and thus is part of a systematic pattern of dominance and control. Domestic violence results in physical injury,

psychological trauma, and sometimes death.

  • Punching
  • Use of objects to inflict pain and injury
  • Choking

  • Unwanted fondling
  • Rape
  • Oral or anal sodomy
  • Treating a person in a sexually derogatory manner
  • Forced pregnancy or abortion

  • Inappropriate touch
  • Intercourse
  • Attacks on sexual areas of the body
  • Use of objects or weapons
  • The withholding of contraceptive methods

  • Slapping
  • Hitting
  • Biting
  • Kicking
  • Pushing

Did You Know?

*1 in 4 women (24.3%) and 1 in 7 men (13.8%) aged 18 and older have been the victim of severe physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime

More Facts & Figures

*85% of domestic violence victims are women.

*Women between the ages of 20-24 are at the greatest risk for nonfatal intimate partner violence.

1 in 3 teens who have been in or known about an abusive relationship have told someone.

37.7% of Texas women have experienced family violence in their lifetime.

#WhyIstayed

Blaming a victim for staying with their abuser is a form of victim blaming.

#WhyIstayed

LACK OF SUPPORT: Family members are threatened physically… After repeated attempts to help, family may distance themselves from the victim…Friends don’t want to get involved…Isolation from family makes it difficult

RELIGION: Divorce is not acceptable…Vow was to love, honor, and obey

EMBARASSMENT, SHAME, GUILT: She doesn’t want her family to find out…If her family likes him, they may not believe her or they might blame her…If she is the wife of a prominent citizen she may worry about how the publicity will effect his reputation, career, and whether people will believe her

FEELS RESPONSIBLE: She doesn’t know anyone else being beaten, so she must be doing something wrong…She believes what her abusive partner says that somehow it’s all her “fault”, therefore he had to beat her

ECONOMIC DEPENDENCE: Many batterers have strict control over the purse strings…Husband convinces her that she will not receive any child support if she “abandons” the family…Over 50% of victims have no marketable skills…Feels she can endure beatings so that children have more financial advantages

And while it might not “make sense” to a lot of people, abusers are often world class manipulators and there are actually several very understandable reasons an abused woman might choose to remain with her abuser:

LOVE/HOPE: He is not always brutal…She hopes he will change, and the beatings will stop…An abused partner still loves the abuser even though he hits her

FEAR : She believes his threats to beat or kill her, the children, her family if she leaves him…He’s done it before, she fears he will do it again

SOCIETAL PRESSURE: Society has conditioned women to believe their primary duty is to keep the family together no matter what…She would be admitting failure…She may have been successful in other areas of her life and believes that if she works hard enough she can also have a successful relationship or marriage

1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men aged 18 and older in the United States have been the victim of severe physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime.

Approximately, 15.5 million children are exposed to domestic violence each year.

1 to 2 million elderly Americans have been injured, exploited, or mistreated by someone who they depended upon.

In 2012, 114 Texas women were killed by there intimate partners.

Presented by:

The ladies of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Rho Chapter &

Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. Beta Psi Chapter

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