Batterers-Rapist Risk Factors
- Often portrayed as jealous, domineering.
- Feel a sense of entitlement to have sex with “their property.”
- Pregnancy places women at higher risk for physical and sexual abuse.
- Being ill or recently discharged from the hospital are also risk factors.
- Women are at higher risk of being physically/sexually abused when they attempt to leave.
- 2/3 of women were sexually assaulted at the end of a relationship.
- Women who are separated/divorced from partners at high risk for sexual abuse.
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