Using the Children
Threatening or hurting someone we love is a tactic to insure compliance. Batterers know that many victims are willing to suffer almost anything to protect their loved ones. Has or does your partner:
- threaten to kidnap or kill the children
- punish or deprive the children when mad at you
- call you a bad parent
- use visitation to harass you
- tell the children things to affect their opinion of you or demean you in front of them
- refuse to participate in the care of the children
- use the children to make you feel guilty
- threaten to sexually abuse the children if you won’t have sex