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Repeated
injuries or injuries that are difficult to account for
as accidental. Many victims are beaten while they
are pregnant.
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Repeated
injuries or injuries that are difficult to account for
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Visits
to health care facilities for vague complaints or acute
anxiety
with no reported injuries. Psychiatric
hospitalizations for anxiety
or depression.
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Strokes
in young women, often caused by blows to the head or
damage to the neck arteries due to strangulation.
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Isolation
of the victims-no access to money, to the car or other
forms of transportation, to family or friends, to jobs or
school.
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Victims
referring frequently to their partner's "anger"
or "temper",
or "threats".
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Fears of
being harmed or harming partner.
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Terror
or reluctance on the part of the victim to speak to those
in authority because of reprisals from the abuser.
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Reluctance
to speak or to disagree in the presence of the abuser
because of fear.
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Frequent
fleeing from their home.
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Suicide
attempts or homicidal assaults.
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The
abuser's snatching of the children.
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The
abuser's jealous accusations of sexual infidelity against
the
victim.
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The
assailant sexual or physical abuse of the children.
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The
abuser's attempts or threats to psychiatrically
hospitalize the
victim and convince you of their insanity.
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Public
docility and respectability and private aggression by the
batterer.
