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What is battering?
Battering is abuse - repeated behaviours used by one person in order to gain power and control over somenone else.
These behaviours may include the following forms of abuse:
- Physical - restraining, punching, kicking, slapping, choking, shaking, biting, driving unsafely to intimidate you, abandoning you in dangerous places, preventing you from eating or sleeping, pulling your hair, locking you out of the house.
- Psychological - terrorizing, isolating, confining, questioning your sanity, destroying property, threatening suicide.
- Emotional - threatening you or your loved ones (including pets), name-calling, humiliation, intense jealousy, blaming, accusing you of having affairs, threatening to kidnap the children if you ever leave.
- Financial - withholding or controlling all money, not allowing you to know about family finances, making you ask for money.
- Sexual - rape, forced sex or forced sexual activity, sex after beatings, being forced to watch pornography.
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