Domestic Violence Hotline
It’s a sign of abuse if her partner:
- Calls her names, insults her, constantly criticizes her, humiliates her
- Isolates her from family and friends
- Monitors where she goes and how she spends her time
- Controls finances, refuses to share money, or gives her an allowance
- Threatens to have her deported or to report her to a welfare agency
- Threatens to take the children away
- Threatens to kill or hurt her, the children, other family members, or pets
- Threatens her with a weapon
- Destroys property, such as household furnishings
- Pushes, slaps, hits, bites, kicks or chokes her
- Forces her to have sex or to perform sexual acts
For more information or referral to local domestic violence shelters, call the National Domestic Hotline at 800-799-SAFE (7233)