Sentences with phrase «emotional abusers in»
As of Dec. 29, 2015, emotional abusers in the U.K. could face five years of prison time, a fine or both, even if the behaviour stops short of serious physical abuse.
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«With this funding, child advocacy centers will be better equipped to partner with law enforcement to bring the abusers to justice while offering effective emotional support services to child victims and their families,» Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement.
Often, abusers have psychologically beaten their victims down to the point at which they feel completely dependent or are in a state of financial and emotional enslavement.
(And keep in mind that it's not just men committing physical and emotional violence — women can be abusers, too.)
However, emotional abusers will weaponize this affection in order to get what they want.
Controlling partners also use any power they have at their disposal to manipulate their spouse, resulting in financial and emotional abuse or even using the children as leverage to coerce the victim to submit to the authority of the abuser.
Emotional abusers try to twist reality in order to conduct their abuse.
According to the National Domestic Violence Hotline 800 -799-SAFE (7233), 96 % of the abuse reported was emotional or verbal, in which the abuser degrades, threatens, insults, humiliates, or isolates the victim.
Abusers often employ a variety of tactics in their quest to control their targets, including physical abuse (e.g., pushing, hitting, choking), sexual abuse (e.g., forced sexual activities), emotional abuse (e.g., name - calling, insults, public or private humiliation), economic abuse (e.g., controlling finances, preventing the partner from having a job), coercion and threats (e.g., threatening to harm or leave the partner), intimidation (e.g., destroying the partner's property, harming the partner's pet), social isolation (e.g., monitoring or limiting the partner's social contacts and outside activities), and denial (e.g., denying or minimizing the abuse, blaming the partner for the abuse)(see Hines, Brown, & Dunning, 2007; National Domestic Violence Hotline, 2015; Pence & Paymar, 1993; U.S. Department of Justice, 2008, 2014).