Domestic Violence Awareness Month 2024

Narcissistic PersonalityBy Manya Wakefield Oct 02, 2024

Over the coming four weeks Narcissistic Abuse Rehab will mark Domestic Violence Awareness Month 2024 with special content designed to honor victims, uplift survivors, and raise awareness about this issue. Data suggests that one in three women and one in four men have been victims of intimate partner violence, including physical, sexual, and psychological abuse. ¹ ² Furthermore, a staggering number of children, ranging from 3.3 to 10 million, are exposed to domestic violence within their own families annually.³

Even though domestic violence impacts millions of people around the world across of gender, age, race, and socioeconomic status, it remains poorly misunderstood and marginalized. Most people’s understanding of domestic violence is limited to its observable expressions–bruises, fractured teeth, and broken bones. But the reality is that many survivors endure forms of abuse that leave no visible scars.

Beyond The Violent Incident Model

Groundbreaking research by the late Dr. Evan Stark found that the violent incident model through which most people understand domestic violence is dangerously inadequate. ⁴ Nearly all domestic violence and femicides occurs in the context of coercive control–a pattern of acts used by one person subjugate another person. Coercive control, psychological abuse, financial manipulation, and isolation are often at the heart of domestic violence, and these forms of abuse can be just as damaging, if not more so, than physical violence.

This month, we’ll be publishing a series of topical content aimed at educating, informing, and empowering our readers and listeners to better understand the complexities of domestic violence. We will deep dive into what coercive control looking like during and after entrapment-based relationships have ended. We will also hear from the world’s leading experts on the challenges victim-survivors face in family court. Throughout October, we’ll be covering the stories, legal insights, and strategies that survivors and advocates alike need to know.⁵

Domestic Violence Awareness Month 2024

October 1, 2024: Exploring “FRAMED: Women in the Family Court Underworld” with Dr. Christine Cocchiola and Amy Polacko.
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