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What is Battering? <br /> <br />Battering, or the use of physical force, is part of a <br />system of behaviors used to establish and maintain <br />power and control over another person. <br /> <br />Intimidation: Putting her in fear by using looks, actions, gestures, <br />loud voice, smashing things, destroying her property. <br /> <br />Isolation: Controlling what she does, who she sees and talks to, where <br />she goes. <br /> <br />Emotional Abuse: Putting her down or making her feel bad about <br />herself, calling her names. Making her think she's crazy. Playing mind <br />games. <br /> <br />Economic Abuse: Trying to keep her from getting or keeping a job. <br />Making her ask for money, giving her an allowance, taking her money. <br /> <br />Sexual Abuse: Making her do sexual things against her will. Physically <br />attacking the sexual parts of her body. Treating her like a sex object. <br /> <br />Using Children: Making her feel guilty about the children, using the <br />children to give messages, using visitation as a way to harass her. <br /> <br />Threats: Making and/or carrying out threats to do something to hun <br />her emotionally. Threatening to take the children, commit suicide, <br />report her to welfare. <br /> <br />Using Male Privelege: Treating her like a servant. Making all the <br />"big" decsions. Acting like the "master of the castle". <br /> <br />These behaviors are more powerful because they are <br />reinforced by the threat or use of physical abuse. <br /> <br /> Rivers of Hope <br /> P.O. Box 142 <br />Elk River, MN 55330 <br /> <br />RIVERS OF HOPE <br /> <br />(612) 441-0792 <br />(612) 682-6424 <br />1-800-439-2642 <br /> <br />To Build a Community <br />Free of <br /> Domestic Violence <br /> <br /> <br />