“In the year ending March 2019, 1.6 million women experienced domestic abuse”.
Domestic Abuse and family abuse currently have ambiguous definitions. Speaking recently to a local police force in Lancashire their view is that Domestic Abuse can only occur between partners, ex partners or a child abusing a parent/carer, but it does not include child abuse. Some however, would describe domestic abuse as any type of abuse within the domestic/home setting. We have split the types of abuse into categories below:
- Abuse inflicted by one person against another can include:
- Abuse by a family member
- Abuse by a stranger or non relationship/family member
- Bullying
- Child Abuse
- Elder abuse
- Gang abuse
- Intimate relationship abuse
- Parental abuse
- Situational Couple Violence
- Teen abuse