Blanca Avila, Raleigh Barnes, Madison Berry, Jenna Brick
Texas State University
Page Break Domestic violence is "the willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or other abusive behavior as part of a systematic pattern of power and control perpetrated by one intimate partner against another. It includes physical violence, sexual violence, threats, and emotional/psychological abuse" (NCACD, 2015). In the United States alone, 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men, have been physically abused by an intimate partner, with 1 in 5 women and 1 in 7 men experiencing severe physical abuse (NCACD, 2015). This creates an average of 20 people being abused by their intimate partners every minute, …show more content…
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