Safety Alert
Computer use can be monitored and is impossible to completely clear. If you are afraid your internet and/or computer usage might be monitored, please use a safer computer, call your local hotline, and/or call the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
Get Educated
Abuse is a pattern of coercive control that one person exercises over
another. Battering is a behavior that physically harms, arouses fear,
prevents a partner from doing what they wish or forces them to behave
in ways they do not want.
Battering includes the use of physical and
sexual violence, threats and intimidation, emotional abuse and economic
deprivation.
Abuse in America
As many as 324,000 women each year experience intimate partner violence during their pregnancy.