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This website is proudly sponsored by SBC.
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HOW CAN I GET HELP?
Family Violence Law Center (FVLC) is a nonprofit organization that helps
domestic violence (DV) victims and their children throughout Alameda County,
California. Last year, we helped more than 7,000 women and their families.
We are working to end domestic violence and abuse in our community by
providing legal, prevention, and counseling services primarily for women
and children.
If you or someone you know is being abused, please call our crisis
line: (510) 208-0255.
Am I Being Abused?
Look at your own situation and answer these questions to find out if
you are being abused. Does the person you love …
- Track all of your time or check up on you often as if you are not
trusted?
- Constantly accuse you of being unfaithful and sleeping around?
- Discourage your relationships with family and friends?
- Prevent you from working, attending school or going out?
- Criticize you for little things, like you cannot do even simple things
right?
- Totally ignore you or your children, like you are not even there?
- Control all finances and force you to account for what you spend?
- Let you and the children go without basic needs like groceries, utilities,
phone?
- Keep the phone locked up or take it with him or her when he or she
leaves?
- Destroy personal property and sentimental items?
- Call you names and humiliate you either in private or in front of
others?
- Treat you and any children like you are property?
- Tease, abuse, hurt or even kill your family pets?
- Keep you or your children from getting basic medical care?
- Drink or do drugs, then get angry or violent?
- Blame you for the anger and abuse, say that everything is your fault?
- Tell you that you're crazy or say the abuse never happened?
- Hit, punch, slap, kick, bite, burn, push, trip or use any other physical
force on you or your children?
- Threaten to hurt you, your children, your family or friends?
- Use or threaten to use a weapon against you or others you care about?
- Force you to have sex with them, or others against your will?
- Knowingly given you a sexually transmitted disease?
- Threaten to kill themselves, or someone you care about, if you leave
them?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be a victim of
abuse in your relationship.
You Are Not Alone – Statistics on Domestic Violence
- Every 15 seconds, a woman in the United States is physically abused
by her partner.
- One out of three adult women are beaten by their spouses or partners
at some point in their lives.
- Two-thirds of attacks on women are committed by someone the victim
knows, most often a husband or boyfriend.
- An estimated 70% of men who abuse their female partners also abuse
their children
- 4,000 women are killed each year because of domestic violence.
- Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women between
the ages of 15 to 44 in the United States - more than automobile accidents,
muggings, and cancer deaths combined.
- Nearly half of the violent crimes against women are never reported
to the police.
- Male violence towards pregnant females is the number one cause of
birth defects. Battered women are four times more likely to have low
birthweight babies and twice as likely to miscarry compared to mothers
who are not battered.
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