domestic violence victims
Home abuse sufferers
People who have experienced physical, emotional, sexual, or psychological abuse from an intimate partner or family member.
The term appears in legal, social service, and advocacy contexts: The shelter provides housing for domestic violence victims.
Some prefer "survivors" to emphasize resilience rather than victimhood, though both terms remain in common use.
- survivorOne still alive after
- shelterProtected place or structure
- safe houseSecret secure refuge
- bruisesDiscolored skin from impact
- emotional scarsLasting harm from trauma
escape · breaking free · silence · silent suffering · fear · abuse · cycle of abuse · power and control · trauma · safety · hidden · helpline · restraining order · broken · courage · healing · fresh start · advocate
- Victim Rightsprotection orders, notification, protection, participation, privacy rights
- victimscasualty, survivors, fatality, casualties, sufferer
- Vulnerable Groupshomeless youth, orphans, refugees, disabled people, elderly poor
- victimologyvictimology, revictimization, vulnerable populations, trauma recovery, complainant
- Protected Classesrace, color, religion, sex, national origin
domestic violence victimsabusers
Those who harm others
batterers · perpetrators · offenders · assailants · aggressors
domestic, domestically, domesticate, domesticated, domestication, domesticity, violence, violent, violently