WHAT IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE?Domestic violence is the willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or other abusivebehavior as part of a systematic pattern of power and control perpetrated by one intimate partner against another.It includes physical violence, sexual violence, threats, and emotional abuse. The frequency and seve...

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Group explores ways to resolve economic dilemmas that hobble survivors By Lisa Aronson Fontes, PhD Two weeks after they meet, he insists on moving into her apartment and pooling their funds in a joint bank account. Then he takes away her ATM card. He forbids her from working. Or he moves her to a rural area where she can't find a job. He makes her ...