This document discusses domestic violence, defining it as any abusive behavior between intimate partners or family members. It outlines how domestic violence can be physical, sexual, emotional, verbal or financial. The document describes how domestic violence affects women, men, and children, causing fear, anxiety, and feeling unsafe. It provides signs of emotionally, physically, and sexually abusive relationships. Finally, it discusses how to help victims of domestic violence and their legal rights and protections under domestic violence laws.

1. Domestic
Violence
Fear at Home
By- Neha Borkar

2. Introduction
Any incident of threatening
behaviour, violence or
abuse (psychological,
physical, sexual, financial or
emotional) between adults
who are or have been
intimate partners or family
members, regardless of
gender or sexuality.

3. Who are Affected?
• Women
• Men
• Children

4. Domestic Violence
include
• Physical Assault
• Sexual Assault
• Emotional Abuse
• Verbal Abuse
• Social Abuse
• Damaging Property
• Financial Abuse

5. How it affects women?
• Overwhelmed by Fear
• Believes its her fault
• A Conflict of Emotions
• Dependent on her Partner
• Feelings of Shame, Guilt or
Embarrassment.
• Find hard to make decisions

6. How it affects men?
If someone is gay, bisexual or
transgender abuser tries to
• Threaten you to tell your
friends, family, colleagues or
community members.
• Making fun of you infront of
others.
• Call you with abusive names.
• Makes you to do things
which you are not

7. How it affects
children?
• See, Hear & Observe the
violence in the house and
act .
• Become fearful and
anxious.
• Feel powerless
• Feel unsafe
• Always worried about
themselves, his/her
mother, or anyone who is

8. You may be in an
emotionally abusive
relationship if your
partner• Calls you names, insults you or continually
criticizes you
• Does not trust you and acts jealous or
possessive
• Tries to isolate you from family or friends
• Monitors where you go, who you call and
who you spend time with
• Does not want you to work
• Controls finances or refuses to share money
• Punishes you by withholding affection
• Expects you to ask permission
• Threatens to hurt you, the children, your
family or your pets
• Humiliates you in any way

9. physically abusive
relationship if your
partner• Damaged property when angry (thrown
objects, punched walls, kicked doors,
etc.)
• Pushed, slapped, bitten, kicked or
choked you
• Abandoned you in a dangerous or
unfamiliar place
• Scared you by driving recklessly
• Used a weapon to threaten or hurt you
• Forced you to leave your home
• Trapped you in your home or kept you
from leaving
• Prevented you from calling police or
seeking medical attention
• Hurt your children

10. You may be in a sexually
abusive relationship if
your partner
• Views women as objects and
believes in rigid gender roles
• Accuses her of cheating or is often
jealous of her outside relationships
• Wants her to dress in a sexual way
• Insults her in sexual ways
• Forces or manipulates her into
performing sexual acts
• Demands her to work for him when
she is sick, tired or after hurting
her
• Hurts her with weapons or fire
• Involves other people in sexual
activities with her against her will.

11. How to help them?
• Talk to her/him
• Listen to her/him and believe
what she/he tells you
• Reassure her that the abuse
is not her fault
• Don’t tell her to leave or
criticise her for staying
• Focus on supporting her
and building her self
confidence
• Help her to develop or to
keep up her outside

12. What are one’s legal
rights?
The Domestic and Family
Violence Protection Act 2012
was created to give people
legal protection from violent
relationships.
• Apply for a domestic violence
order to help stop the
violence
• Apply for an urgent
temporary protection order
• Ask the police to press
charges against the person

13. Thank You
Stop Violence