• 27% of women have been physically abused in an intimate relationship.
• 25% of physically abused women had their life threatened.
• 50% of women who have been physically abused have also been sexually assaulted in the same relationship.
• 2 of every 3 women have been sexually assaulted as a child, an adult or both.
• 42% to 80% of women have been sexually harassed in the workplace.
  
  (The Canadian Panel on Violence Against Women, 1993 & Statistics Canada, 1993)

You may be a Victim of Abuse if Your Spouse or Partner:

• Tracks all of your time.
• Always accuses you of being unfaithful.
• Limits or refuses time with family and friends.
• Stops you from working or going to school.
• Picks on you for small, meaningless things.
• Gets angry when drinking alcohol.
• Controls all the money and forces you to report how you spend your money.
• Humiliates you in front of others.
• Uses your religion against you.
• Tries to make you jealous.
• Always argues with you.
• Threatens to take the children or calls you an unfit mother if you leave.
• Destroys your things.
• Hits, punches, slaps, kicks, shoves, or bites you or your children.
• Threatens to hurt you or your children.
• Uses or threatens to use a weapon on you.
• Forces you to have sex when you don't want to.
• Curses at you, calls you names, or blames you whenever things go wrong.
• Free time is limited to your partner's interests only.
• You cover or make excuses for your partner's behaviour.
• You feel you must ask permission to do things.
• You are punished for "misbehaving".
• Your partner grew up in an abusive family.
• There is trouble if you say an opposite opinion.

If you checked yes to even a few of the above statements, you may be a victim of woman abuse. There is help, call the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit, 519-258-2146 ext. 1350 or Hiatus House, 519-252-7781.