Power and Control
Definition of the problem: Battering is a pattern of coercive control that one person exercises over another. Abusers use physical and sexual violence, threats, emotional insults and economic deprivation as a way to dominate their partners and get their way. Relationships in which one partner uses assault and coercion can be found among married and unmarried heterosexuals, lesbians and gay males.
Battering is behavior that physically harms, arouses fear, prevents a woman from doing what she wishes or forces her to behave in ways she does not want to. The statistics clearly indicate that battering is too common to be considered an emotional illness.
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Using Intimidation
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Using Emotional Abuse
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Using Isolation
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Controlling what she does, who she seesand who she talks to
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Controlling where she goes and who she sees
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Limiting her outside involvement
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Using jealously to justify actions
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Minimizing, Denying and Blaming
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Making light of the abuse and/or saying the abuse did not happen
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Not taking her concerns about the abuse seriously
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Shifting the responsibility for the abusive behavior
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Saying she caused the abuse
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Using Children
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Making her feel guilty about the children
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Using the children to relay messages
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Using visitation to harass her
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Threatening to take the children away
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Using Male Privilege
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Treating her like a servant
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Making all the big decisions
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Acting like the "Master of the Castle"
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Being the one who defines men's and women's roles
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Using Economic Abuse
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Using Coercion or Threats
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Making and/or carrying out threats to harm her or others
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Threatening to leave her, commit suicide or to kill her and/or their children
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Making her drop charges
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Making her do illegal things
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