Domestic violence involves different forms of abuse including verbal, emotional, and economic abuse. Verbal abuse involves blaming and name-calling, while covert verbal abuse is more subtle and manipulative. Emotional abuse causes the victim to lose their sense of self and independence over time. Economic abuse involves controlling a victim's financial resources and decisions. While men are often associated with domestic violence, women can also abuse men - studies show that around 40% of domestic violence cases involve female abusers. Childhood exposure to family conflict is linked to higher rates of violence later in life.

1. CONTRIBUTING FACTORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCEBy: Sharon Barnes

2. WHAT IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE?Under most state laws, domestic violence is defined as any physical abuse, or thereat of abuse between intimately involved partners, roommates, or family members.

3. The first attested use of the expression “domestic violence” in a modern context, meaning “spouse abuse, or violence in the home” was in 1977.

4. Since then violence between spouses has long been considered a serious problem.ABUSE TYPESDomestic violence is a very complex form of violence, and it involves different forms of abuse.These forms of abuse are: Verbal

5. Emotional

6. Economic abuse.Verbal AbuseVerbal abuse may be:overt(angry outbursts/name-calling)

7. covert (very subtle comments).Overt verbal abuse involves blaming and accusatory. This can be consequently confusing to the partner. Covert verbal abuse, which is hidden aggression, is even more confusing to the partner. Verbal abuse is also manipulative, controlling, and insidious.

8. Emotional AbuseEmotional abuse is brainwashing, and eventually the abuse causes the individual to lose all sense of self and remnants of personal value.

9. Abuse feeds off control, therefore when the abuse reaches this stage, the abuser recognizes his dominance and begins to control his partner’s decisions making, in regards to their role in society.