Website maintained by Derek Payne                                                                          ©All Rights Reserved Greene County Sheriff's Department 2010-2011                      Domestic violence is an escalating pattern of abuse where one partner in an intimate relationship controls the other through force, intimidation, or the threat of violence. Abuse comes in many forms: Physical: Kicking, punching, shoving, slapping, pushing, and any other acts which hurt your body. Sexual :Calling you vulgar names, criticizing your body parts or sensuality, forced or pressured sexual acts, including rape. Emotional: Assaults against your self-esteem Verbal Name- calling, threats, put-downs. Psychological: Causing you to feel as if you are "going crazy". Spiritual: Attacking your spiritual or religious beliefs. Financial: Controlling and manipulating you by threatening your economic status and basic needs. Homophobic: Threatening to "out" you to people who do not know your sexual orientation Immigration: Using your immigration status and fear of deportation to control you. Destructive Acts: Actual or threatened assault of your property or pets to scare you. •A woman is beaten every nine seconds in the United States. Domestic violence is the most under-reported crime in the country, with the actual incidence 10 times higher than is reported. •Eighty percent of children who live in homes where domestic violence occurs witness the abuse. •Lesbian and gay domestic violence occurs in approximately one-third of these relationships, about as often as in heterosexual relationships. •On average, four women are murdered every day by their male partner in the U.S. According to the District Attorney's Office, there were 21 deaths as a result of domestic violence in Santa Clara County in 1995. •Women in the U.S. are in nine times more danger in their own homes than they are in the street. •According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 95 percent of reported spousal assaults are committed by men against women. Assaults committed by women against men occur in approximately 5 to 10 percent of domestic violence matters. •About 17 percent of women report experiencing physical or sexual violence during pregnancy. •Battering prior to pregnancy is the primary predictor that battering will occur during pregnancy. Middle Way House Bloomfield, Indiana 24 hour hotline (812)-384-8769