What is domestic violence?

Answer 1

Any violence within a family setting...

Answer 2

Domestic violence occurs when a family member, partner or ex-partner attempts to physically or psychologically dominate or harm the other. The term "intimate partner violence" (IPV) is often used synonymously, other terms have included "wife beating", "wife battering", "Man Beating", "husband battering", "relationship violence", "domestic abuse", "spousal abuse", and "family violence" with some legal jurisdictions having specific definitions.

Recent attention to domestic violence began in the women's movement as concern about wives being beaten by their husbands, and has remained a major focus of modern feminism, particularly in terms of "violence against women".

Popular emphasis has tended to be on women as the victims of domestic violence although with the rise of the men's movement, and particularly men's rights, there is now some advocacy for men as victims, although the statistics concerning the number of male victims given by them are strongly contested by many groups active in research on or working in the field of domestic violence and "violence against men".

Answer 3

Violence or physical abuse towards a spouse, domestic partner or family member. Or when a man/woman is forced to do something that her partner wants against their will; through verbal, physical, psychological, or sexual force . God bless

Answer 4

Domestic violence is verbal, physicological, physical harm inflicted to any member of the household. That does not exclude your pet(s).

Answer 5

To me, it is any action that de-values a family member. If being around someone lowers your own self worth and image, they are abusing you.

Answer 6

Being hurt in any way, spiritual, mentally, physically, and sexually until some one ends up dead.

Answer 7

Now days it is when an adult corrects a child

Answer 8

Beating on someone in your family.