Welcome to East Ayrshire Domestic Abuse Forum web pages. Domestic abuse can involve a range of behaviours, some of which are criminal, all of which are unacceptable and none of which should be tolerated.As many as one in five women in Scotland, of all ages and backgrounds, will experience domestic abuse at some point in their lives.

It is not caused by stress, unemployment, poverty, alcohol, mental illness or by the women who experience it. It is ongoing and usually escalates in severity and frequency over time, particularly when a woman attempts to leave or in some other way assert her identity.

Children and young people see and hear much of this abuse and many of them experience it themselves.

Although men can also experience abusive and controlling behaviour from their female partners and abuse can exist in same-sex relationships, domestic abuse is overwhelmingly experienced by women and their children.

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Please email your comments to: eadaf@eawak.demon.co.uk

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