Domestic Violence

                                                                            If you or someone you know is being hurt,

                                                                          call 570-421-4200 or toll-free 800-799-7233
                                                                                     24 hours a day 7 days a week.

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Domestic Violence can take different forms, but its goal is always the same: batterers want total power and control over their partners.  They do this by regularly abusing them physically, emotionally, and psychologically.  Abusers are very much in control: they hit when they want to and stop when they are ready.

Physical Abuse:

• Slapping, kicking, pushing

• Hitting, choking, punching

Verbal Abuse:

• Constant criticism, name calling, shouting

• making humiliating remarks, mocking

Isolation:

• Not allowing the victim to see friends and relatives

• Monitoring phone calls

• Controlling where the victim goes

• Taking victim's keys, locking the victim out of the home

Harrassment/Coercion/Intimidation/Threats

• Making the victim feel guilty

• Pushing the victim into decisions

• Manipulating victim and other family members

• Always insisting on being right

• Making up impossible "rules" and punishing the victim for breaking them

• Threatening to harm the victim, children, family members and pets

• Using physical size to intimidate

• Keeping weapons and threatening to use them

• Following or stalking

• Humiliating the victim in public

• Constantly checking up on the victim's whereabouts

• Extreme jealousy and possessiveness

Economic Control

• Not paying bills, refusing to give money