Currently, there are various forms or families including: "Childless couple; blood ties as with parents, siblings and children; legal ties as with a spouse, adopted children and step-relations; similar ties that have the same familial features of legal ties, like de facto relations, gay or lesbian partnerships, long-term foster children, and indigenous customary marriages"(classified by Dr Porter). ... Rape in the marriage was once a dilemma of family law. ...

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In other words domestic violence includes: physical abuse such us slapping, hitting, burning, etc, sexual abuse, like rape, incest, emotional abuse, threats, insults, harassment, and neglect which means poor physical emotional care. ... They can be dating, living together, parenting a child together, married, divorced, or in a gay or lesbian relationship. ...

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