The goal of these support groups is to provide education and advocacy through a variety of community collaborations. Women receive support to increase their independence and self-sufficiency to ensure and continue a life-style free from abuse.
Domestic Violence is about power and control. It is never to be confused with love, caring or respect. It is a pattern of behavior that includes the use of threat and/or violence and intimidation for the purpose of gaining power and control over another person or persons.
This is the question most asked, instead of asking why someone batters in the first place. There is a victim-blaming attitude. People who are abused often hear that they must need or like such treatment or they would leave. In reality, someone's reasons for staying are much more complex.
The vast majority of men are not violent and want to stop domestic violence because it is the women in their lives - their mothers, daughters, sisters - who are the victims. As children, men may have been abused themselves, or watched their own fathers use violence to assert or maintain control over their mothers. Domestic violence affects everyone, male and female. It is a human issue!