Domestic Violence is presented when a member of the family, a partner or an ex-partner executes physical or psychological domination to another member.

Victims to domestic violence could be human beings of different social and economical stratum, races and religions, spouses or cohabitant non-married intimate partners.

If you believe that you are being a victim of domestic violence you could protect yourself and your children by turning for help to the legal system of the United States. By the passed in 1994 and 1996 laws by the Congress, the domestic violence act is defined as a federal criminal wrong doing and especially heavy crime when guns are used.

Indirect victims are the children, witnesses to domestic violence which reflects in a negative way on their mentality at the moment and also later in life.