Violence In Nigeria

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INTRODUCTION
`Violence against women and girls continues unabated in every continent, country and culture. It takes a devastating toll on women‘s lives, on their families, and on society as a whole. Most societies prohibit such violence — yet the reality is that too often; it is covered up or tacitly condoned’
- (UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, 2007).
Domestic violence relates to the general term used in describing form of abuse between people of the same household or within the domestic realm; whether between spouses, siblings, parents and children, partners living together etc. Spousal abuse, on the other hand, can occur in husband-wife relationships, dating relationships, with common law spouses and also in same-sex relationships (Canadian …show more content…

al. (2012) indicated the spousal violence prevalence rate of 47.3% for ever experience of spousal violence, and 32% for spousal violence prevalence in the 12 months preceding the survey.
Spousal abuse tends to have serious consequences to the lives and well-being of families. The American Psychiatric Association (2005) documented some of the mental implications of domestic abuse such as: common emotional traumas such as depression, anxiety, panic attacks, substance abuse and posttraumatic stress disorder. Furthermore, abuse can trigger suicide attempts, psychotic episodes, homelessness and slow recovery from mental illness. According to the documentation from UNICEF (2006), findings have shown that children who are exposed to violence in the home may suffer a range of severe and lasting effects. Children who grow up in a violent home are more likely to be victims of child abuse. Those who are not direct victims have some of the same behavioural and psychological problems as children who are themselves physically abused. Children who are exposed to violence in the home may have difficulty learning and limited social skills, exhibit violent, risky or delinquent behaviour, or suffer from depression or severe anxiety. Given the negative consequences of spousal abuse, a study on the subject matter would inform the knowledge needed in providing useful solutions to this social …show more content…

Thus, the theory argues that people model behaviour that they were exposed to as children. By the same token, they state that violence is learned through role models provided by the family either directly or indirectly and reinforced in childhood and continued in adulthood as a coping response to stress or a method of conflict resolution (Mihalic & Elliot cited in Igwe, 2013). The Social learning theory attempts to explain the existence of intergenerational transmission of violence. It is suggested that while children are growing up, they receive feedback from others as regards their own behaviour from which they begin to develop standards of behaviour and seek out models who match their standards (Hyde-Nolan & Juliao, 2012). When a person is raised in a family where he experiences abuse as a child or sees abuse between his or her parents, there is every tendency for that person to be

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