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Myths About Domestic Violence

  • By DomesticShelters.org
  • Jul 31, 2017
Myths About Domestic Violence
  • Victims are only young women
  • Couples counseling is the answer to stopping the abuse
  • Reproductive abuse doesn’t exist
  • It’s not rape if you’re married
  • Victims of abuse are weak
  • Financial abuse isn’t real, it’s a person’s responsibility to be financially independent
  • If there’s not a bruise, it’s not abuse
  • The survivor is exaggerating the abuse
  • Abusers only become violent because they’re intoxicated
  • The abuser must be mentally ill, have addiction problems, etc.
  • Abuse only happens among uneducated, low-income individuals
  • The abuse must not be that bad if the survivor is still with their partner
  • The survivor knew what they were getting into at the start of the relationship
  • Victims don’t care about their children if they stay in the relationship
  • Both partners are probably abusive
  • Victims provoke the abuse
  • By staying, a survivor is encouraging or tolerating abusive behavior
  • If a victim wanted the abuse to stop, they’d just leave
  • Men are the only perpetrators