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OCTOBER IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH. What’s the difference between domestic violence, intimate partner violence, and gender-based violence?![]()
➡️ “Domestic violence” and “intimate partner violence” can be used interchangeably to describe a pattern of abusive behavior and coercive control that can happen in a dating, marital, or live-in (or ex-) intimate partner relationship.![]()
➡️ “Intimate partner violence” often feels more inclusive because it more explicitly recognizes that people in any type of romantic relationship can experience abuse by a partner–regardless of age, gender identity, sexuality, or “formal” relationship status.![]()
➡️ “Domestic violence” may tend to feel less inclusive, because sometimes people assume the term only refers to married couples or heterosexual relationships (even though this isn’t true).![]()
➡️ “Gender-based violence” is an umbrella category for violence directed at an individual based on their biological sex or gender identity. It includes physical, sexual, verbal, emotional, and psychological abuse, threats, coercion, and economic or educational deprivation, whether occurring in public or private life. Domestic violence (or “intimate partner violence”) is one form of gender-based violence. Sexual assault is another form of gender-based violence.![]()
#Every1KnowsSome1 #DVAM
OCTOBER IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH. Domestic violence is a pattern of coercive, controlling behavior that can include physical, emotional, verbal, sexual, financial, and other abuse. #Every1KnowsSome1 who has been impacted, and we all have a role to play in ending it.
