There are no typical victims of domestic violence or abuse. Although the majority of victims are women, men also suffer from domestic violence and abuse by their partner or other family members.

Victims and abusers are often seen as submissive women and large domineering men but this simply isn't the case. Anyone can become a victim of domestic violence, regardless of age, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disability, class or gender.

Children who witness violence and abuse are victims in their own right, even if they are not directly subjected to violence in the home children are very perceptive and can often detect that all is not well.