DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH AND SOCIETY IN THE MANAGEMENT

Akinlotan Joan Olamitokunbo, Akinlotan Raymond Adeniyi, Eunice Molayo Oladipo

Abstract


In our society, many women are violently treated by their intimate partners while they suffer in silence. In some cases, domestic violence leads to the death of those women. This should not be allowed to continue because women are crucial to the growth and development of any nation and the world at large. They are homemakers, custodians of social, cultural and fundamental values of the society; and permanent change is often best achieved through them. Full community development is impossible without their understanding, cooperation and effective participation. Considering all these, women deserve better treatment but opposite are usually the case. Wife battery affects the physical and psychological wellbeing of the abused women and even that of their children. It is on this premise that this paper discusses the meaning of domestic violence against women, types of intimate partner violence, effects of these types of violence on abused women and their children. This paper also discusses causes and management of domestic violence against women. In conclusion recommendations were made to eradicate this menace from the society.  


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Domestic violence, women, wife battery, physical, psychological damage.

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