Violence can happen in any relationship irrespective of culture, class and ethnic group, in many societies domestic violence upon women in seen as a normal detail. Women living in relationships which involves mental and physical abuse is frequently exposed to sexual violence. This affects the woman’s identity and self-image, the most frustrating part is that these abuses are done by none other than their husbands whose duties are to protect and respect their wives (Garcia Moreno et al, N.D).
According to an article of ‘domestic violence on women’, female faces terrible circumstances within the family itself as female babies were murdered and abandoned. In some families, girls were considered as a burden. They were raped and even killed.
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Nonetheless domestic abuse still affects women in our country, a survey was conducted by the department of SOS Femmes in Mauritius and Rodrigues in 1999. 300 people had participated in this survey and 84.3% were victims of physical abuse, 86% were abused psychologically and 55.3% of sexual abuse. This research proved that women are so blinded by cultural, religious systems and traditions that, it would have been difficult to eliminate domestic violence unless extreme actions were …show more content…
The theoretical and empirical analysis have been explained, statistics and empirical evidences have been demonstrated to show why domestic violence occurs and to what level men can abused their female partners. Domestic Violence is an obstacle to the empowerment of women, they are emotionally abused, this can have long lasting effects on them and it makes them feel worthless. Because of this, families are broken and children who witnesses domestic violence are growing up with a lot of mental stress. This makes them feel helpless and weaker which can affects their academic studies, they also become emotionally