Information & advice
What is domestic abuse?
What is domestic abuse
Domestic abuse can be:
- Coercive control
- Emotional
- Physical
- Sexual
- Financial
- Forced marriage and honour-based violence
- Stalking and harassment
- Online and digital abuse
It can be some or all of these things. Anyone can experience domestic abuse, regardless of age, background, gender, religion, and ethnicity. It can happen in all kinds of relationships; heterosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender and within extended families between parents and children.
No more excuses
Domestic abuse doesn’t happen because of alcohol, drugs, stress or unemployment. These are excuses often used to justify abusive behaviour.
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