Continuum of Abuse

• Emotional
jokes, putdowns, isolation, crazy making, threats of suicide,name calling, ignoring, intimidation, threats of physical danger

• Physical
constraining, pushing, throwing objects, kicking, weapons,
tickling, pinching, slapping, choking, punching

• Sexual
degrading remarks, unwanted touching, forced touching, rape, withholding intimacy, infidelity, prostitution, disease

• Economic
Humiliating remarks, child support, sabotaging credit/welfare Starvation Allowance, work refusal, job harassment, control $/resources, Homelessness, Medical Crisis

• Spiritual
Ridiculing beliefs as childlike, withholding permission to participate

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