Domestic Violence During COVID
Domestic Violence During COVID What is “domestic violence”? It is the willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or abusive behavior perpetrated by an intimate partner against another. Violence against women is often accompanied by emotionally abusive and controlling behavior, and this is part of a systematic pattern of dominance and control. Domestic violence results in physical injury, psychological trauma and sometimes death. National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV). Restrictions aimed at stopping the coronavirus from spreading may be the very thing that is causing violence in homes to increase and become more severe. Historically domestic violence goes up whenever families spend more time together, we have seen these trends at Christmas, summer vacations or school breaks. Currently 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men experience physical violence by an intimate partner nationwide. ( The national intimate partner and sexual