Domestic Violence and the Ripple Effect

Domestic Violence and the Ripple Effect
<Tab/>Domestic violence is any assault, aggravated assault, battery, aggravated battery, sexual battery, stalking, aggravated stalking, kidnapping, false imprisonment, or any criminal offense resulting in personal injury or death of one family or household member by another, who is or was residing in the same single dwelling unit. Domestic violence spreads through society as an epidemic in families, workplaces, churches, schools and communities becoming a ripple effect as a pebble thrown into calm and still waters. It effects all peopl…