Contest Alert !!! || "Domestic Violence".
INTRODUCTION
What do you know about Domestic Violence?
From the word domestic which means relating to the home, domestic violence is violence done to a person by another person related to the abused. It can also be done by a person who is in a relationship with the person abused. It means violence and abuse by family members or loved ones
Another way to explain domestic violence is violence committed by one member of a family or household against another. It is an act or behavior that threatens the life of another person. It makes them scared. People might think since violence is physical, domestic violence might be only physical but it goes beyond physical, it can be emotional, psychological, physical, sexual, verbal, financial etc. It can be between a husband and wife, among siblings, from parent to children or children to their old parent, from house helps to children, it might even involve the extended family members.
Briefly Explain at least three main types of domestic Violence.
• Physical violence : The most common type of domestic violence is the physical one. This has to do with inflicting body harm on a person. A person might get injured or maimed for Life. Through the physical violence, an eye may be lost, hand broken, head broken resulting in death, one might even get spinal cord accidents which makes the person disable for like. The physical violence can be from a husband to a wife, a wife to a husband, parents to children or amongst extended family.
• Financial abuse: Financial abuse might be from a husband to a wife. It may include a husband stopping his wife from obtaining an education or maybe the wife is educated, she might even be working but at the end of the day, week or month when she is paid her salary, he ceases her earnings, leaving her with nothing to take care of herself. It might also be a husband not providing for his wife or children.
• Emotional abuse: This involves calling the person names and making the person feel worthless, it makes the abused lose his or her self esteem. Emotional abuse can also mean withholding love from a person, criticizing the person, not seeing anything good in the person. It can also mean making fun of a person, always blaming the person for everything. It can be from a husband to wife or wife to husband, from parent to children etc. The victim will feel ashame, guilty, helpless, loose self-confidence, be intimidated etc.
Have you ever seen a real case of domestic Violence in your life? Tell us about it.
I have seen elder siblings carry out domestic violence on their younger ones. I can remember one of my student coming to school with marks all over his body, and when I asked him, he said his elder brother beat him up, so domestic violence occurs especially in families, but sometimes the family members will try to cover it up.
People who carry out domestic violence might not change so it's best to separate if things dint work out in order to avoid destruction of self esteem and possibly death.
Children who have been victims of domestic violence usually fund it hard to concentrate on their studies and might end up doing the same things to their mates. They grow up to be violent and be abusive to their partners or children because they believe it is normal.
CONCLUSION
I just wanna appreciate @abdullahw2 for this topic. I'm calling on @edidiongeffiong @usoro01
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Domestic violence is not just between husbands and wives, it could be between parents and children or between siblings, thanks for that point. In my opinion we should frown at abuse of any kind, and perpetrators should be penalized. I wish you all the best in this contest.
You are correct @blessedbee.