Domestic violence, a critical issue that has a negative impact on the Native Americans in the United States. Domestic violence, also known as spousal abuse, can take several different forms, including physical, emotional, verbal, as well as sexual abuse. One in every three native women will experience some sort of domestic violence in their lifetime and most will have nowhere to seek help. Furthermore, men are victims of domestic violence and more often than not, get laughed at and ridiculed when they reach out for help. When people think of domestic violence, most think of physical fighting, black eyes, broken nose, and holes punched in the walls of the house.
She is apparently quiet after her boyfriend has told her he do not want children. She is actually shattered and she murders her children. It seems a little exaggerated, but it is a consequence of all the situations she has repressed during her life. As Cixous explains ‘’every woman has known the torment of getting up to speak: a double distress.’’(Cixous, p. 351) It is necessary that women must speak up their minds, the female’s character in Love, forever is a victim of a patriarchal society that defines women’s expected
That 's a horrible scenario to take into account. To add, the victims in case are often blamed for deserving what they get because they fail to take care of their husbands. Male supremacy and subordination by females together paint the picture for such unfathomable conditions for women. In a report by the United Nations, domestic violence is legitimized by the structure of the family (that which depicts a
Out of fear of her parents and the social stigma as well as the poverty associated with being single; many child wives are compelled to remain in a loveless and violent marriage (hope4childwives.com, "Consequences of early marriage") Step Four: Identify the Root Cause(s) The conflict between rich and poor exists since the beginning of time, but its factors changed from a generation to another. Slavery, illnesses, genocides, abuses, rape etc. all these problems are related in a way or another to poverty and lack of resources as well as power holders. In my opinion, poverty is the main reason for child marriage, it can lead to hunger, lack of resources and access to medical care. Poverty is also the reason which leads to ignorance, the need for financial recourse at any price, even if it is selling girls to an old rich groom.
Women were not allowed to vote and divorce if they were allowed they would carry a heavy social shame and it was only available when both partners agreed. Injustice violence and inequality becomes the law. Women are not treated equally. Men treat women like trash or just like a doll or a servant. Men think that women are useful only to bear children, cook and clean.
She becomes a victim of an alien culture where all women become victims and feel themselves to be ugly and also suffer from an inferiority complex as a result of the impact of white standards of beauty. Her imbalanced mental state is also due to the uncaring and unsupportive nature of her mother as well as the unhealthy familial relations inside the home where the father on the one hand rapes the daughter and on the other burns down the house along with daily disputes between the parents. I have thus reached the conclusion that females are more vulnerable to acquire a diseased mind as they are always under the confining bell jar of the society and the family as a
However it should be noted that not all individuals or groups sharing an interdependent relation would face a conflict, i.e. it is a necessary condition but not a sufficient condition for a conflict to arise or occur. 2. Disagreement: - It occurs when there exist a divergence of values, needs, interests, objectives, goals or opinion among the parties. Disagreement is the key cognitive component in interpersonal conflict.
The state being patriarchal in character refused to recognize the fundamental human rights of women and children. Many countries still refuse to identify it as an offence. So in the ongoing times civil society and human rights activist’s effort has been to make the state identify domestic violence as crime – crime against women. (General Assembly, 1993) EFFECTS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ON WOMEN The effects of domestic violence on women and children can range from physical to psychological depending on the type of violence perpetrated Children who grew up seeing domestic violence in their households often show bipolar and delinquent behaviour and go through lot of harmful emotions like guilt, anxiety and fear (Unicef,2007). So there are three types of abuse practiced: PHYSICAL
We have gone through periods of feudalism . People have to live in the state pf poverty, lack of inferior material .Most notable is the miserable life of the women who suffered brutal violence, mistreatment as an animal . That problem doesn’t just happen in the past, but they still happen until now . So what led to the issue of women suffer violence even in war and now? The answer is because of the thought of man, they despise women.
According to him good Indian wives remain within the four walls of their home, by wearing western dresses they bring bad name to the family. Her existence within the four walls was an extreme form of cultural discrimination, her husband has put all the restrictions on her and she cannot participate in outside life, this leads to schizophrenia, the highest form of psychological disorder and in a fits of madness she kills her husband. Through Dimple’s character Bharati Mukherjee has depicted consequences of non-absorption in foreign country. According To Salman Rushdie, “To forget that there is a world beyond the community to which we belong , to confine ourselves to