Family (or domestic) violence is defined by the 1995 Domestic Violence
Act (NZ) as violence against any person by any other person with whom
that person is, or has been, in a domestic relationship. Violence, according
to this act, may take the form of either:
- Physical Abuse: This includes hitting, punching,
breaking objects, choking, slapping, pushing or in any other way assaulting
another person
- Sexual Abuse: This includes making her do
sexual things against her will, physically abusing the sexual parts
of her body, making degrading sexual comments, treating her like a
sex object, or any sexual contact with a person without that person's
permission
- Psychological Abuse: This includes threatening
a person, intimidating them, playing mind games, damaging property,
exposing a child to domestic violence, trying to control a person
by constantly humiliating them, or controlling a person money, time,
car, or contact with other people as a way to having control over
them.
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