Dating/domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behavior that is used by one intimate partner to gain or maintain power and control over the other intimate partner. It can include physical violence, coercion, threats, intimidation, isolation, economic abuse, such as controlling a partner's access to money, emotional abuse, and sexual abuse. All such acts are forms of sexual harassment prohibited by Title IX and are crimes.
Dating/domestic violence can happen to anyone regardless of race, age, sexual orientation, religion, or gender. It affects people of all socioeconomic backgrounds and education levels and occurs in both opposite-sex and same-sex relationships.
