Domestic Violence Questions Answered

1. Define domestic violence.
There are many definitions for the term domestic violence. Some include the following; violence and abuse by family members or intimate partners such as a spouse, former spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend, ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend, or date, violence that occurs within a family or an intimate relationship, including wife beating and child abuse, and finally incidents of inter-spousal physical or emotional abuse perpetrated by one of the spouses or parent figures upon the other spouse or parent figure in the child victim's home environment. …