3. Domestic Abuse
• Domestic abuse, also called "domestic violence" or "intimate partner
violence", can be defined as a pattern of behavior in any relationship that
is used to gain or maintain power and control over intimate partner.
4.
5. Types of Domestic Violence:
• Control
• Physical Abuse
• Sexual Abuse
• Emotional Abuse
• Verbal Abuse
• Using Male Privilege
6. Control
• Controlling behavior is a way for the abuser to maintain dominance over
the victim. Controlling behavior and the resultant abuse is the core issue in
domestic violence.
• According to a study carried out in 2009 by Human Rights Watch, it is
estimated that between 10 and 20 percent of women in Pakistan have
suffered some form of abuse.
7. Physical Abuse
• Physical abuse is any intentional act of hurting or injuring a person on
purpose by way of bodily contact.
8. Sexual Abuse
• Sexual abuse is using sex in an exploitative fashion or forcing sex on
another person. Sexual abuse may involve both verbal and physical
behavior.
9. Emotional Abuse
• Emotional abuse involves nonphysical behaviour that belittles another
person and can include insults, put down, verbal threats or other tactics
that make the victim feel threatened, inferior, ashamed or degraded.
10. Verbal Abuse
• Coercion, Threats, & Blame: Verbal abuse is any abusive language used to
denigrate, embarrass or threaten the victim. This may include but is not
limited to:
Threatening to hurt or kill the victim or her children, family, pets, property
or reputation.
11. Using Male Privilege
• As long as we as a culture accept the principle and privilege of male
dominance and tolerate violence against women, men will continue to be
abusive.
12. References
• McGuigan, W. M., & Pratt, C. C. (2001). The predictive impact of domestic
violence on three types of child maltreatment. Child Abuse & Neglect, 25(7),
869–883. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0145-2134(01)00244-7
