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glossary. If the term you are looking for starts with a digit or symbol, choose
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- Domestic Violence
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Domestic Violence as abuse in a family or
household including woman or spouse abuse, child abuse, incest, sibling
abuse, or elder abuse. ( Levy in 1984)
- Economic
Abuse
Economic Abuse
occurs where the man has total control over all financial resources; it
involves controlling the use and availability of money. For example the man may refuse to allow the woman to work outside the
home, to earn an independent income, or to prevent her from participating in
decisions about how money is spent or from refusing her adequate money for
basic household necessities. (W.I.S.E., 1997)
- Physical Abuse
Physical abuse takes many
forms, including hitting, punching, pulling hair, slapping, grabbing,
biting, kicking, breaking bones, bruising, burning, damaging household goods,
threatening or assault with weapons, such as knives, firearms and axes. (W.I.S.E.,
1997)
- Psychological
Abuse and Emotional Abuse
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Psychological
and Emotional Abuse are linked to verbal abuse and aimed at destroying the
victim’s self-confidence. Behaviors
include destroying household/personal property, deliberately hurting/killing
domestic pets, depriving the woman of personal needs such as food and
sleep. (W.I.S.E., 1997)
- Sexual Violence
Sexual Violence in the home is domestic violence. Sexual intercourse without consent is sexual assault; it
may or may not involve force. It
is any unwanted sexual contact. (W.I.S.E., 1997)
- Social
Abuse
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Social Abuse
includes delivering verbal abuse in front of other people, such as
put-downs, inappropriate jokes, criticism about the woman’s weight,
appearance, sexuality or intelligence; controlling behavior such as
following her to work, controlling access to her friends or family, constant
phone calls at work or accusations of imagined affairs, locking her out of
the house. Social abuse is the
constant monitoring and control of a woman’s activities, outings, and
friendships in which she may be forced to account for her every movement,
expenditure, and activity. (W.I.S.E., 1997)
- Spiritual
Abuse
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Spiritual
Abuse describes the damage violence does to the spirit of those who have
been abused; it involves the shame experienced when everyone in the
community is aware of the violence. For
Christian women spiritual abuse involves an element of violence in the home
and the way in which it is conceptualized with church tradition; for
example, that tradition may involve a concept of one’s Christian duty as a
wife to endure violence and to preserve the marriage regardless of lack of
safety for the woman. (W.I.S.E., 1997)
- Verbal
Abuse
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Verbal Abuse
consists of derogatory comments, insults, and constant put-downs.
Examples include a woman being told she has a lack of physical
attractiveness, is inferior, incompetent, unable to cope and/or succeed on
her own and being told that she is not a good mother/wife; these are
designed to humiliate and destroy self-esteem.
Verbal abuse also includes threats of physical violence and violent
verbal outbursts. (W.I.S.E., 1997)
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