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Domestic Violence

If you’re in an abusive relationship, be careful when using the Internet.

Your computer use can be tracked. It is impossible to fully erase the web sites you have visited. If you think someone is tracking your computer use, please use a safer computer. You may be able to use a friend's computer or a computer at your local library.

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Are you in a Domestic Violence situation?
 
  • At least one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime.
  • Nearly 25% of American women report being raped and/or physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, cohabitating partner, or date at some point in their lifetime.
  •  30% of Americans say they know a woman who has been physically abused by her husband or boyfriend in the past year.
  • Women of all races are about equally vulnurable to violence by an intimate partner violence by an intimate

What is Abuse?

Sometimes it is hard and confusing to admit that you are in an abusive relationship, or to find a way out. There are clear signs to help you know if you are being abused. If the person you love or live with does any of these things to you, it's time to get help:

  • monitors what you're doing all the time
  • constantly accuses you of being unfaithful
  • prevents or discourages you from seeing friends or family, or going to work or school
  • controls how you spend your money
  • controls your use of needed medicines
  • humiliates you in front of others
  • destroys your property or things that you care about
  • threatens to hurt you, the children, or pets, or does hurt you (by hitting, beating, pushing, shoving, punching, slapping, kicking, or biting)
  • uses or threatens to use a weapon against you
  • forces you to have sex against your will
  • blames you for his or her violent outbursts