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Domestic Violence: a Detestable Peril Prevailing in India and Abroad Dr The International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention Volume 3 issue 9 2016 page no. 2560-2567 ISSN: 2349-2031 Available Online At: http://valleyinternational.net/index.php/our-jou/theijsshi Domestic Violence: A Detestable Peril Prevailing In India And Abroad Dr. Shivani Goswami Associate Professor USLLS, GGS IP University Dwarka, Delhi , India Introduction The life of the woman is always surrounded with accident, murder and violence are likely to occur.” violence. From her cradle to her last breath, she is (2) subjected to endless and incessant numbers of Domestic violence continues to be worldwide violence. Violence against her is boundary less. It scourge that exterminates, slays and persecutes not only happens in under developed and women- physically, emotionally, sexually, fiscally developing countries but innumerable number of and the nastiest part is women are still loathed to women even in developed countries are entrapped report this evil, as a result, most cases go and ensnared in this menace. unreported. It is a soundless and unspoken crime where woman every day and night suffers at the The UN Declaration on the Elimination of hands of her husband and his relatives with no Violence Against Women states that: succour to ask for as these cases go unnoticed. "violence against women is a manifestation of Dowry deaths, physical torture, mental torture, historically unequal power relations between men marital rape, wife battering, bride burning etc are and women" and that "violence against women is the various manifestations of domestic violence. one of the crucial social mechanisms by which Meaning women are forced into a subordinate position compared with men. (1) Domestic violence can be described as the power exploited and mistreated by one person to control During her life, women are subjected to violence’s and subjugate another who stands in relation to like female, foeticide, female infanticide, rape, this person. Power used could be physical, mental, sexual harassment, acid attacks, human trafficking sexual, economic, emotional and verbal. and forced prostitution, labelling her as witch etc, to name a few. Of all violence’s mentioned above, “Domestic violence is not simply an argument. It domestic violence is the most abysmal, most direr is a pattern of coercive controls that one person and most awful violence committed on her not by exercises over another. Abusers use physical and strangers but her own very people whom she sexual violence, threats, emotional insults and could not even think of committing atrocities on economic deprivation as a way to dominate their her or on whom she had confided and unburdened victims and get their way”. (Susan Scheter, her heart to. Visionary leader in the movement to end family It is rightly said “Statistically it is safer to be on violence) (3) streets after dark with a stranger than at home in Causal Factors (4) the bosom of ones family, for it is there that 2560 DOI: 10.18535/ijsshi/v3i9.3 cite as: Domestic Violence: A Detestable Peril Prevailing In India And Abroad;Vol.3|Issue 09|Pg:2560-2567 2016 Male domineering society: It has always been a complex and in order to satisfy this, women are male dominated and male dictated society. This is smacked out. engrossed and imbibed in the minds of the person Childhood Memories: There is a general belief when a child and this continues and persists that men may become violent, offensive and throughout. The moment woman tries to raise her abusive in their lives if they have witnessed and head and voice, even for a rightful and apt cause, seen their fathers thrashing and beating their she is snubbed and rebuffed down through mothers during their childhood. Straus, Steinmetz domestic violence. In a patriarchal society, women and Gelles observed, for example, that “the more are not shielded and safeguarded when their punishment one experienced as a child, the greater partners inflicts and metes out brutal and spiteful the rate of violence in marriage fifteen or more methods. Husbands often feel that by battering years later. One out of four or five of those who their wives, they are exercising their right and were punished the most hit his or her spouse punishing their wives misbehaviour and during the year of this survey.” (6) wrongdoings. They feel that by exercising such right, they are maintaining good order in the Drunkenness: One of the major causes of family. (5) domestic violence is the excessive drinking habit of the husband, which if refuted ultimately leads Stress and tensions: Another causal factor for to violence between the couple. domestic violence. Stress and tensions play a Dowry related issues: Bringing of fewer dowries pivotal role and a person suffering from this lashes or no dowry has mostly resulted in violence and spanks out for obvious reasons. Stress could within home. There are catenae of cases which be job related, wife a successful woman and approve and give backing to this. It has either husband an under achiever, disagreements and resulted in domestic violence and in some extreme spats, neglecting in-laws, inferiority feelings, cases women have also succumbed to the injuries refusal and denial of sex without any reason, inflicted financial crunch and unable to meet both ends etc, to name a few... Going Outside Wedlock: Of late it is seen that extra marital affairs are mounting up like Fiscal Reliance: Financial dependence on anything. The slip up or blunder could be of either husbands forces most of the women to continue to parties but it often ends up with beating and stay in the same household where the abusive and thrashing of the wives in most of the cases. obnoxious husbands stay. Since they are economically dependent on the husbands and the Servile Mentality: In some cases, women are husbands very well know the fact that these themselves to be blamed. They are fault finding women do not have any place to go even if they and keep on finding fault in themselves even if it are tormented, undue advantage is taken of their is the imperfection of their husbands. They believe vulnerable, susceptible and deplorable position themselves to be slaves of their husbands and and hence domestic violence.... suffer all melancholies and glums whether at fault or no fault. Fiscal Non Reliance: The converse of the above is by the same token applicable in cases where Effects women are financially independent and are not Domestic violence is the most unpleasant and the reliable on their husbands. In these cases also, pits thing committed on women. The effects of women are punched and thumped by their this last till her last breadth. She suffers both husbands because it brings a sense of inferiority physically and psychologically with no succour to ask for as most cases go unreported. Domestic 2561 DOI: 10.18535/ijsshi/v3i9.3 cite as: Domestic Violence: A Detestable Peril Prevailing In India And Abroad;Vol.3|Issue 09|Pg:2560-2567 2016 violence leads to physical injuries, nausea, case against her husband. So, it really becomes an vomiting, anxiety, negative feelings about uphill task to administer justice to such themselves, feeling of abandonment, depression browbeaten and subjugated woman. If we see it and seclusion, arthritis, bleedings, miscarriage if from the angle of the women, they are averse to pregnant, gynae problems, menstrual problems, file cases against their offensive and odious various diseases like sexual transmitted diseases husbands for their own reasons behind and even if (STD), irritable bowel syndrome, various agonies, cases are filed, they are at the one stage or the insomnia, suicides and deaths in extreme cases other withdrawn as has been mentioned. It is a etc, to name a few.... Children who are born and matter of jolt and kick in the teeth that women brought up in such houses are also not free from everywhere be it under developed, developing or such miseries, woes and anguishes. They may developed countries have same psyche and are either become very quiet and forlorn in their lives hesitant to file cases against their boorish and or there are very high chances of them becoming violent husbands. Reasons could be-----Domestic aggressive and obnoxious in their lives and violence is a common feature which is all exercising similar things they have witnessed pervading and it need not be addressed. Her during their childhood (7). All this may lead to economically dependence on husband and the despondency and quandaries associated with it. trepidation of future of kids doesn’t allow her to There are very high chances of them becoming leave her matrimonial home. Another factor is her drug addicts, brutal and vicious in their behaviour. servile mentality where she keeps on blaming They are the ones who are more likely to commit herself even if her husband is at fault. She believes crimes and also suicides in their lives (8) that she will be successful wife, once she is able to Inspite of the fact that the effects of domestic control violence of her husband. On her failure to violence are very pathetic, yet the reality is it is do this, it is she who is to be blamed (10). Her mounting up and swelling in not only under affection and fondness for her husband is another developed and developing countries but also reason which doesn’t allow her to leave her home developed countries. even if there is lot of turbulence and hurly-burly in It is recognized both nationally and internationally her relation. Inspite of the fact that legal succours that women are routinely raped, beaten up, are available, the condition of the women at home assaulted and stalked by current and former front is really dismal and pitiable.
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