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What is domestic violence? Domestic violence is a pattern of behavior in a relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over the other partner.

Domestic violence could occur between family members or household members involving physical harm or sexual assault. Domestic violence and abuse can happen to anyone regardless of gender or size.

Some of the signs of domestic violence are feeling afraid of your partner, your partner yell or humiliate you, criticize you and put you down, have a bad and unpredictable temper, hurt you or threaten to hurt or kill your children or take them away, threaten to kill themselves if the woman leave them, force the woman or other partner to have sex with them and jealous or possessive.

Also the person being abused may show some...