Domestic Violence
- Domestic abuse, also called “domestic violence” or “intimate partner violence”, can be defined as a pattern of behavior in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner.
- Abuse is physical, sexual, emotional, economic or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person.
- According to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Crimes against women reported every two minutes in India
Factors/Causes responsible for Domestic Violence
- Exploitation of women for demanding more dowry
- Torture by husband and in-laws of the husband
Aggressive Attitude
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- They believe that every matter inside and outside the home should be solved with physical power not with peace.
- Women are not allowed to be ahead of men because of the belief that a man who cannot control women would not regard as mean in real sense
Poverty
- When a person is not able to meet even two meals a day, he may get aggressive and violent and this leads to domestic violence often against woman.
Status Difference
- In every society besides of great advancement man, try to achieve high status and for that his greed for money increases and this may lead to domestic violence.
Dominating Behavior
- Domestic Violence may start when one partner feels the need to control and dominate the other.
- Low self-esteem, extreme jealousy, difficulties in regulating anger and other strong emotions or when they feel inferior to the other partner in education and socio-economic background.
Drug Addiction
- Alcohol and other chemical substances may contribute to violent behaviour.
- A drunk or high person will be less likely to control his violent impulse.
Extra-marital affairs
- These are an increasing factor in marital conflicts which lead to domestic violence.
- Lack of trust, doubtful and suspicious attitudes lead to disputes which can lead to physical abuse/beating of partners.
- Children may suffer due to separation/divorce of parents due to neglect by either parent who is more concerned about their affair.
Stress
- Stress is considered as a cause of domestic violence.
- This person has a tendency to be violent towards the partner.
Consequences of domestic violence attack on women
- Domestic violence attack on women, which will affect victim as well as family of the victim
- The suicide case of such victimized women is also a deadly consequence and the number of such cases is increasing day by day.
- A working Indian woman may lose her efficiency in work or drop out from work in some cases.
- Domestic Violence may affect the life of children at the larger extent because child will be having greater attachment with her mother
- Sometimes marriage life will become a burden to the spouse and one of the spouses will opt out for divorce or separation which again affects life of the children.
- Children who witness domestic violence may develop serious emotional behavioral, developmental or academic problems.
- The social and economic costs of intimate partner and sexual violence are enormous and have ripple effects throughout society.
Laws against domestic violence
- In 1983, domestic violence was recognized as a specific criminal offence by the introduction of section 498-A into the Indian Penal Code.
- This section deals with cruelty by a husband or his family towards a married woman.
- To prevent violence against women and to protect the rights of aggrieved women, the legislation The Protection of Domestic Violence At, 2005 passed