What Signs to Look For
- Victims often have unexplained physical injuries
- Isolation is also a common sign that battering may be occurring in the home. The abuser will want to keep the victim away from their friends or family to gain complete control over them.
- Financial dependency is another way that the abuser’s keep control over their victim. They control all of the victim’s finances and only give them an allowance and keep track of what they are buying.
- Frequent use of prescribed pain medications and frequent doctor’s visits.
- A woman that doesn’t seem to have her own opinion and is with a man who makes decisions for her and does most of the talking.