Domestic violence involves someone making their partner afraid by abusing them, over time, in order to control them. This is what differentiates it from violence between partners that is ‘one off’ or ‘goes both ways’. It can include physical, sexual, emotional, psychological, financial, social and spiritual abuse. While men also experience it, domestic violence is mostly perpetrated by men against women.3
- Since the age of 15, approximately one in four women and one in 13 men have experienced violence from a partner.
- Women are more likely to feel fear as a result of partner violence.5
- Women are more likely than men to be killed by a partner. In Australia, from 2010-2014, 121 women were killed by male partners (current or former). In this same period, 28 men were killed by female partners.*6