Domestic Violence- An Analysis

 

                                                                                       

In our society, girls are taught by their parents from childhood that they have to go to their mother-in-law's house sitting in a palanquin and only come out from there in a casket. So in mother-in-law’s house she has to adjust and tolerate everything. This kind of mentality generally promotes domestic violence.

 

Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behaviour in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another intimate partner which includes sexual, physical, economic, emotional, psychological, or technological actions or threats of actions or other patterns of coercive behaviour that influence another person within an intimate partner relationship.

 

Generally, a woman from a very young age has been inculcated in that tradition by witnessing beatings of mother from her father, aunt form uncle and sister-in-laws from brother and when she is beaten by her husband, she accepts it in her mind that it is a normal thing and she silently endures it.

In order to provide for more effective protection of the rights of women guaranteed under the Constitution who are victims of violence of anything occurring within the family and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto, Government have implemented an Act namely “ the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act,2005”.

 

Domestic violence  can be reduced by adopting measures like legal literacy of women by creating awareness of rights among women, strengthening of free legal aid societies and effective functioning of family courts and family counselling, monitoring rescue homes and implementation of different laws more actively, awareness, mobilization and protesting violence. Apart from this, we should change our mind-set in this connection