Physical Abuse
Domestic abuse can take many different forms, including physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological/emotional abuse and financial abuse.
Physical abuse describes many different types of physical violence, assault and harm.
Physical abuse includes:
- Hitting
- Punching
- Kicking
- Scratching
- Slapping
- Biting
- Scalding
- Pulling hair
- Poking
- Pinching
- Pushing
- Shoving
- Burning
- Setting alight
- Binding limbs
- Tripping over
- Choking
- Beating
- Cutting
- Imprisonment
- Starvation
- Forced feeding
- Using weapons
- Deliberate dehydration
- Twisting arms
- Sleep deprivation
- Stabbing
- Shooting
- Drowning
- Torture
- Attempted murder
- Murder
- Bruising
- Scalding
- Starving
Domestic abuse may increase when a person experiencing abuse tries to end the relationship, on separation or divorce or, during pregnancy and following the birth of a child. Domestic abuse has a harmful, sometimes even life threatening, impact on the mental wellbeing of those affected.
