The word
"abusive" means using harmful or cruel behavior towards someone, often causing them physical or emotional pain.
Full definition
Domestic violence is a pattern
of abusive behavior in a family or household relationship used by one person to gain power and control over another person.
To be fair, the legislation included protections for spouses
in abusive relationships.
She focused her campaign on family homelessness, which frequently means single mothers and children escaping
from abusive relationships.
What would be provisions would be made for
abusive parents and domestic violence victims (regardless of gender)?
If you grew up
with abusive parents, would your fear and insecurity disappear by learning it was all part of some master plan?
Any type of emotionally
abusive situation can be hard to recognize, particularly when that relationship has always been that way between the two individuals.
It's difficult to value «family time» when your family is at the mercy of a physically
abusive father.
We also encourage domestic violence shelters and victim advocates to ask incoming clients about pets in their homes as well as the threats those pets face from
abusive partners.
Auto lenders would be well advised to keep up their guard as states — particularly blue ones — take steps of their own to crack down on what they see as
abusive practices.
I just want to throw out there that family and marriage counseling are not
for abusive relationships or relationships in which one partner is clearly dominant.
A test of moderation revealed a significant interaction between parental intolerance and abuse status such that intolerance predicted parenting stress level only for
abusive mothers.
In fact, being raised in purity culture and
by abusive parents really helped make the disorder worse.
«I want to do this so that women and children in
abusive home situations know that they have a place to go, they can get out of there,» he says.
Typically the product of a very conservative Christian upbringing and a
verbally abusive father.
Family violence describes any type of
abusive behaviour used by one person to gain power and control over another.
For example, a mother may be afraid for her baby because of her currently
abusive spouse.
We hope trial judges use their new authority wisely and cut down
on abusive patent troll litigation.
The central defender was sent off for a second yellow last weekend, and has had his one match suspension increased to five because of
abusive language towards match officials.
Sending offensive letters, getting too intimate or
using abusive language will bring you nowhere.
But subprime loans
become abusive when borrowers are qualified under terms they can't hope to afford.
They claim that these laws will roll back the protections women have finally obtained
against abusive husbands.
Many people don't realize that they're confronting someone who is an emotionally
abusive person.
It could be an absent or inconsistent parent, a physically
abusive boyfriend, or a mother who was really critical.
Debt validation is a tool used to protect consumers from
abusive debt collection.
• More than 50 % of survivors of domestic violence say they are unable to
escape abusive situations because they worry about what will happen to their pets should they leave.
I know someone who was planning on legally changing their name to avoid detection by
abusive family members.
His parents had a relatively stable marriage without significant economic difficulties, and he didn't recall anybody being verbally, physically, or
sexually abusive at home or elsewhere.
We're hoping that, in addition to dealing with
abusive litigation tactics, the key issue of patent quality is addressed.
When you're a child who hasn't figured out how to deal with his emotions, just having these feelings can bring on irritating or
abusive acting - out behavior.
Most of us (especially women) have been subjected to some unwanted or
even abusive behavior online.