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Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another.Domestic violence can be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person. This includes any behaviors that intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, blame, hurt, injure, or wound someone. (From: https://www.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh241/files/archives/factsheets/ojpfs_domesticviolence.html).
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- Violence, Domestic
- Family Violence
- Violence, Family
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general or unspecified; prefer specifics
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- Violence (1968-1993)
- specific type of abuse (1966-1993)
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- National Library of Medicine. Domestic Violence. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D017579. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D017579
- Domestic Violence. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence
- Domestic Violence. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156537