scholarly journals Shadow pandemic: domestic violence and child abuse during the covid-19 lockdown in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 3118
Author(s):  
Prabhadevi Ravichandran ◽  
Anuradha Kunal Shah ◽  
Prabhu Ravichandran
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Safety Aspect ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Public Scrutiny ◽  
Staying At Home

For many women and children around the world, staying at home is no longer a safety aspect during the Covid-19 pandemic. There is a surge in the number of cases of inter-personal violence and child abuse during the lockdown. The stigma and socio-cultural norms create hesitance in subjecting the family and its intimate relationships to public scrutiny. Therefore, building awareness around domestic violence is vital.

scholarly journals Eyeing Innocent Souls: The trajectory of Domestic violence and children's education in Botswana

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-111
Author(s):  
Mavis Bashingie Mhlauli
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Emotional Trauma ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
Psychological Barriers ◽  
Global Problem ◽  
The World

The purpose of this paper is to interrogate the effects of domestic violence among children in Botswana.  Domestic violence is a global problem as it affects people from both poor and stable economies. Research has shown that there is a link between domestic violence and child abuse. This link has been shown in and confirmed by various studies conducted in a number of countries including China, South Africa, Colombia, India, Egypt, Philippines and Mexico (Unicef, 2005). Botswana like many countries of the world has a challenge of protecting children from being victims of domestic violence. Most violence in Botswana is reported to occur within intimate relationships which takes the form of emotional, physical and psychological abuse and mostly occurs among women. It has also been observed that domestic violence is common mostly in male dominated cultures which are either patriarchal or patrilineal and often justified by their customs and traditions, and condoned by law (Kanchipuntu and Mwale, 2016). This violence is said to affect children’s   lives as it may result in emotional trauma, physical and psychological barriers in schooling and educational experience in general (Lloyd, 2018). Paradoxically, children find themselves entangled in domestic violence with very little knowledge of what steps to take to end the form of abuse they experience. Governments, education systems and schools in particular have a role to play to mitigate the situation that children find themselves in hence the suggested strategies. More research needs to be undertaken to develop ways of dealing with domestic violence in schools which are culturally sensitive..    

scholarly journals Social, psychological and clinical aspects of domestic violence (literature review)

2021 ◽  
pp. 48-54
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Ogorenko ◽  
Olha Hnenna ◽  
Viktor Kokashynskyi
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Violent Behavior ◽  
Clinical Aspects ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Neurotic Disorders ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World

The article considered the social, psychological and clinical aspects of domestic violence. Analyzed the main types of violent behavior (economic, psychological, physical, sexual) and the components of the causes of cruel behavior in the family: aggressive behavior, violence, violent behavior. The results of sociological research are presented, the prevalence, causes, aims and types of this phenomenon in Ukraine and in the world are determined. The sociological and cultural concepts of the features of the spread of the phenomenon of violence in families are considered. The stages of the formation of violent behavior in families are analyzed. The features of neurotic disorders and their prevalence among people who have experienced domestic violence are considered.

Life after the Storm: Voices of Women Survivors of Domestic Violence

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria P. Padilla
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Women Survivors ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Family ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Happy Family ◽  
Keywords Domestic Violence

Life is certainly not a fairytale and in this kind of situation, “happily ever after” is not very common. These are the stories of five women-survivors of domestic violence who dreamed of having a happy family, but in the end, their dreams contradicted reality. This interpretivist qualitative study was designed to look into a deeper understanding of collective accounts of women-survivors of domestic violence. The narrative inquiry was employed using the in-depth interview method. The study revealed that these women experienced various forms of domestic violence and were caused by men’s bad habits, problems arising from the family, and jealousy of a man or a woman. Several strategies were employed by these women to improve their lives. This tough decision to free themselves from the abuse made them better individuals, developed a stronger bond with their children, and increased faith in God.   Keywords - Domestic Violence, Violence against Women, and Children, Survivors

scholarly journals Aspek Legal Spirit Undang-Undang Nomor 23 Tahun 2004 Tentang Penghapusan Kekerasan Dalam Rumah Tangga

SASI ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
Elias Zadrach Leasa
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Psychological Violence ◽  
The Family ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
The Law ◽  
Article 5 ◽  
Forms Of Violence ◽  
Domestic Violence Perpetrators

Families are places where everyone in the family feels safe and comfortable from acts o violence, but in reality violence also accurs whitin the family. The enactment of Law No. 23 of 2004 on the abolition of domestic violence (hereinafter referred to as the Law of Domestic Violence) aims to prevent all forms of domestic violence, protect domestic violence victims, prosecute domestic violence perpetrators, and maintain wholeness harmonious and prosperous households. In handling it is sometimes resolved peacefully. This raises the question of whether the Law on Elimination of Domestic Violence has guaranteed the settlement of Domestic Violence according to its objectives? All forms of violence against women and children constitute a violation of human rights, so it is necessary to be protected by their dignity and dignity and guaranteed their right to life in accordance with their nature and nature without discrimination. The Criminal Act contained in Article 5 of the Act states that prohibited violence is physical violence, psychological violence, sexual violence, or neglect of the household. Many cases of domestic violence are reported but not a few are repealed by the victim for various reasons, such as still loving the perpetrator, and the perpetrator is the breadwinner in the household. The resolution of cases of domestic violence is also up to the court's decision, but this certainly brings the consequences of the objective of the Law on Elimination of Domestic Violence. Despite all forms of prevention of domestic violence, protecting the victim, prosecuting the perpetrator is reached but if the case is passed on to the court decision whether the goal of maintaining a harmonious and prosperous household unity can be achieved. The resolution of domestic violence requires the wisdom of the Law Enforcers (Police, Prosecutors, Judges).

Confronting the roots of violent behaviour

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
News Media ◽  
Common Morality ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Gang Violence ◽  
Sexual Assaults ◽  
Violent Behaviour ◽  
Tv News ◽  
The World

This chapter focuses on confronting violence, by analysing humanity's capacity for ‘evil’. It asserts the importance of confronting a sad truth — the reality that it is currently not possible to imagine a world fully free of human violence and aggression. The seeming inexplicability of much violent behaviour may often generate a sense that the world today is somehow bereft of a common morality or mutual sense of compassion. Certainly the internet, print, and TV news media are often fixed on unsettling stories of murder, gang violence, riots, sexual assaults, child abuse, domestic violence, civil war, and terrorism. The seeming ubiquity of violence in society, and the apparent appetite for it, when packaged up as a consumer product, might help in understanding why many people hold the view that violence is ingrained in people's nature.

scholarly journals Family Protection Department (FPD) in Jordan: The Legal Arm to Protect Women and Children from Violence, Exploitation, and Abuse

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Service Needs ◽  
Sexual Assaults ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Abused Children ◽  
The Family

Drawing on the facts that were coming from survivors and victims of domestic violence, sexual assaults and child abuse in Jordan and out of the challenges that social and legal personnel used to encounter while dealing with such cases, a holistic approach of practice was a crucial need. The Family Protection Department is a police department that was established to achieve this purpose. FPD today is one of the pioneering bodies in the MENA region that handles cases of gender-based violence, sexual assaults, domestic violence and child abuse in a one-stop service. This encourages people, who describe privacy and honor as deep values that shape their society, to report incidents of abuse since FPD fulfills their desire for privacy and confidentiality. This paper aims to shed light on the most important stages of the history of FPD establishment as experienced by myself as a police officer at that time. It also traces the emergence of police social work from the era of founding the Family Protection Department (FPD) of the Directorate of the Public Security in Jordan till 2019. The paper examines the most significant governmental and none governmental initiatives that have provided support for forensic social workers to reach out to at-risk children, abused children, and Domestic Violence clients. This paper also discusses the role of forensic social work in Jordan in advocating for the social service needs of abused children, those at risk of neglect and abuse, their families as well as of perpetrators.

scholarly journals Children as Victims of Domestic Violence – Deprivation of Parental Rights according to the Family Law Act of the Republic of North Macedonia and the Family Law Act of Kosovo

SEEU Review ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-44
Author(s):  
Arta Selmani-Bakiu ◽  
MA Julinda Elezi
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Family Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Parental Rights ◽  
Violence Against Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Legal Frameworks

Abstract Domestic violence is one of the most serious forms of violation of basic human freedoms and rights regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion, and status. A reflection on many international statistics shows that women are the most frequent victims of domestic violence. Based on the definition of the phenomenon of domestic violence, the forms of abuse, the manner how violence is treated, the possibility of children, men, extramarital spouses, brothers, sisters, and old people living in an extended domestic community, of also being victims is not excluded. Since domestic violence is not only a national problem but a worldwide problem, international organizations have worked towards the eradication of this phenomenon by sanctioning it in various international conventions. Also, the legal systems of many countries prohibit and sanction domestic violence by special laws obliging the state authorities to act in all situations when there are indications that there are direct or indirect violent acts in a family. In this paper, the authors present only the domestic violence against children as an evident problem in families, but which is often unreported. The legal frameworks of the Republic of North Macedonia and Republic of Kosovo are presented in this paper with the aim to describe the material-legal and procedural-legal treatment of domestic violence by pointing out the failure of the state authorities in implementing the laws on protection and prevention of this phenomenon. The authors take the approach of only treating the legal consequences of child abuse by parents that in both legislations is deprivation of parental rights for the violent parent. They conclude that the state authorities should intensify their work in taking control measures towards all the families where there are suspicions that the parental rights are neglected, and the child is abused. Because many cases of abuse have not been detected or reported, and in both countries a special study especially on domestic violence against children does not exist, the possibility that the number for this type of child abuse is great.

scholarly journals Mental health in post-genocide Rwanda

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 86-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Palmer ◽  
Nsanzumuhire Firmin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
African State ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Hiv Aids

The children who experienced the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda are now in their mid to late 20s. It is almost impossible to comprehend the scale of the terror and destruction of Rwanda's societal infrastructure between 6 April and 16 July 1994. While the world remained inactive, Rwanda, a small impoverished central African state, experienced the murder of about 1 million of its citizens; it also saw the terrorising, humiliation and rape of countless thousands. Although women and children were directly targeted, some actively engaged in atrocities. About 300000 children were murdered, a significant number at the hands of other children. The level of terror differed across the country and escape was frequently by luck alone. A UNICEF (2004) study of 3000 children revealed that 80% had experienced death in the family, 70% had witnessed a killing or injury, 35% saw other children killing or injuring other children, 61% were threatened with being killed and 90% believed they would die (Human Rights Watch, 2003). Of the 250000 women raped, 30% were between 13 and 35 years of age, 67% developed HIV/AIDS and 20 000 births resulted (Donovan, 2002).

Physical punishment in child rearing: A background paper to the campaign for EPOCH (End Physical Punishment of Children) in Australia.

1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Boss
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Physical Punishment ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Parental Behaviour ◽  
Legal Definition ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of

With attention focussed on child abuse and measures for child protection in many countries around the world, efforts have been made to understand something of the nature and dimensions that lie behind abuse. Now the time has come to look at domestic violence in its other manifestations - not only parent to child as in child abuse, but also husband to wife or cohabiter to cohabiter. What, however, has been missing from this widening of concerns has been a focus on parental behaviour toward their children which involves the use of physical punishment in child rearing but which may fall short of the legal definition of abuse. This gap is about to be considered with the emergence in Australia of the EPOCH campaign in which Oz Child is to be a leading participant.

scholarly journals MULTIDEMENSIONAL PERSPECTIVES OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN SERBIA

2021 ◽  
pp. 185-202
Author(s):  
BORO MERDOVIĆ ◽  
ŽELJKO BJELAJAC
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Professional Literature ◽  
Abuse And Neglect ◽  
The World ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
The Individual

Domestic violence with its various manifestations and forms has captured the attention of the scientific and professional public, especially in the last few decades. The consequences it causes not only affect the individual and his personal development, but also have multiple negative implications for the narrower and wider social environment and society as a whole. Most often, women and children are victims of domestic violence, and extensive measures and a multidisciplinary approach are being taken around the world in order to prevent domestic violence and minimize the consequences. The aim of this paper is to point out the etiology and forms of domestic violence with special emphasis on violence against women and children. A phenomenon with serious social consequences that causes traumatic effects on the normal and harmonious development of children is child abuse, which manifests itself in two forms: abuse and neglect. Through the review and results of numerous studies and foreign professional literature, we will point out the prevalence of the phenomenon. In the last part of the paper, we will point out the negative implications of abuse and violence on the mental and physical integrity of the victim, primarily women and children.

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