Risk Factors

Risk Factors of Domestic Violence (Also Called Intimate Partner Violence) - CDC

Individual
-Low self-esteem
-Low income
-Low academic achievement
-Young age
-Aggressive/delinquent behavior as a youth
-Heavy alcohol/drug use
-Depression
-Antisocial/borderline personality traits
-Few friends or isolated
-Unemployment
-Emotional dependence and insecurity
-Belief in strict gender roles
-History of experiencing poor parenting and physical discipline as a child

Relationship
-Conflict, fights, tension, struggles
-Instability, divorce, separations
-Economic stress
-Unhealthy family relationships and interactions

Community
-Poverty and associated factors
-Weak community sanction
-Low social capital (lack of social interactions)

Stalking

That's Not Cool

Teen Victim Project

Stalking Resource Center

Legislation for:

-Stalking

-Aggravated Stalking

-Cyberstalking

-Harassment

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Be Smart. Be Well.

The Be Smart. Be Well campaign by Blue Cross Blue Shield aims to educate the public about making healthy choices related to childhood obesity, sexually transmitted diseases, domestic violence, etc.


Be Smart. Be Well.


Habits to Have:

1. Call the Police/911

2. Call the National Domestic Violence Hotline

3. Make a Safety Plan

Definition of Domestic Violence

"Domestic violence can be defined as a pattern of behavior in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner. Abuse is physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person. This includes any behaviors that frighten, intimidate, terrorize, manipulate, hurt, humiliate, blame, injure, or wound someone." - The National Domestic Violence Hotline

Signs of Emotionally Abusive Relationship:
-Name calling, insulting, criticizing
-Does not trust you, acts jealous, possessive
-Isolation from friends and family
-Monitors where you go and who you talk to
-Controls finances
-Punishes by withholding affection
-Humiliation
-Threatens to harm

Signs of Physically Abusive Relationship:
-Damaged property
-Push, slap, bite, kick, choke
-Reckless driving
-Use of a weapon to intimidate
-Prevent from medical/police attention
-Abandoned in unsafe place

Signs of Sexually Abusive Relationship:
-Viewed as object
-Accused of cheating or is often jealous
-Forced to dress in a sexual way
-Called sexual names/insults
-Ignore feelings regarding sex
-Demanded sex when sick, tired, etc.

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