Domestic Violence

Domestic violence can take a number of forms, including: physical behavior such as slapping, punching, pulling hair or shoving forced or coerced sexual acts or behavior such as unwanted fondling or intercourse, or jokes and insults aimed at sexuality threats of abuse -- threatening to hit, harm or use a weapon on another, or to tell others confidential information, and psychological abuse -- attacks on self-esteem, controlling or limiting another's behavior, repeated insults and interrogation.Typically, many kinds of abuse go on at the same time in a household.