What is Domestic Violence?

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. Domestic violence is an epidemic affecting individuals in every community regardless of age, economic status, sexual orientation, gender, race, religion, or nationality. (National Council Against Domestic Violence, www.ncadv.org)

Domestic abuse has been broadly defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one or both partners in an intimate relationship. These partners may be married, dating, family members, friends, or roommates.

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174 Texas women killed by an intimate partner in 2018.

16 year old girl was the youngest victim.

Dallas Count and Tarrant County are the 3rd and 4th highest counties with fatalities in Texas. (2018)

1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men in the United States have experienced some form of physical violence by an intimate partner.

Family violence can be physical, sexual, emotional and financial. Unlike most other crimes, it usually is not a sudden, isolated incident but trauma that has become increasingly more severe over time. This violence has a devastating impact on all involved—victims, witnessing children and the entire community.

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