| Domestic Violence: Steps To Help End It | | | | way to keep your children from repeating the cycle. |
| First Know The Signso Alienating you from your | | | | Your children will either grow up to be abusive or live |
| friends and familyo Having you account for your time | | | | in abusive relationships. You must stand firm on |
| wherever and whoever you are witho Hitting, | | | | breaking the cycle, you can not waver by going back |
| slapping, punching and shovingo Making you ask | | | | and forth thinking the person will change. |
| permission to do somethingo Calling all the time to | | | | As a woman that lived in an abusive relationship for 8 |
| make sure you are homeo Breaking things in the | | | | years I know from experience how easy it is to |
| home or punching holes in the wallso Making threats | | | | stay. You get the apologies and the flowers, you |
| against you or the childreno Feeling tension when that | | | | believe they will never do it again. It gets worse each |
| person is coming home | | | | time they abuse you. |
| Steps To Take:o Seek counseling for the whole | | | | I have been hospitalized, beaten beyond recognition |
| familyo Have someone come and stay with you that | | | | and came back time after time. |
| can diffuse the situation, not someone who will make | | | | The only way to end it if the person will not agree |
| it worseo Set up intervention in a safe and neutral | | | | to counseling and making an effort to change is to |
| placeo Call 911 if you or the children are hurto | | | | leave. There are many options available. You can go |
| Remove yourself and your children from the situation | | | | to a friend or family member or a safe house. |
| by going to a friend, family or safe houseo Never | | | | Do not let it get to the point where you are seriously |
| confront the person alone, this is how many women | | | | injured, get out early. I left with $50 and my son, |
| get seriously injured or killedo Never keep silent | | | | lived in the back of my van until I found a job and a |
| about the abuse | | | | friend to live with. It was better than the abuse. I am |
| Domestic violence has no place in our society and is | | | | now opening a shelter for women and speaking at |
| not to be tolerated. Breaking the cycle is the only | | | | shelters across the nation. |