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domestic violence

any action by a person that causes physical harm to one or more members of his or her family unit. For example, it can involve battering of one partner by another (partner abuse), violence against children by a parent, or violence against elders by younger family members. See also battered women; child abuse; elder abuse; intimate partner violence.

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