Saturday, March 3, 2007

Domestic Violence

What do you think of domestic violence? Whether its child abuse, wife abuse or any other form of abuse, is there a time when it could be justified?

3 comments:

Aeval said...

Real life situation:

A girl is in a relationship with a boy.

Often when she makes mistakes, he hits her in order to teach her a lesson; so she could improve her faults.

Eventually, after harboring heaps of both physical and verbal abuse (directed for her well being), she has developed a certain negativity towards life and often thinks of rebelling.

Her disposition has become similar to chronic depression and when she thinks of leaving him; both her heart and mind refuse her that option.

However, at times, happiness does come her way from the very man who has harmed her. She does love him and does not want to leave him, but wants the abuse to end.

What do you think she should do in such a situation?

Unknown said...

that is the worst possible scenario. If that were me i would leave, even though i know it would be so hard, if a girl had the right mentality, and thought about the worst possible scenario before even entering a relationship (especially in the saudi culture).. if she were to be in an abusive relationship, it will be hard for her to get out of it, but she will know that it's the right thing to leave him as she has already thought about it before hand, and will know that she can do so much better as she probably has friends who seem to be happier than she is and she can easily compare

Aeval said...

Good point amna.. However, in this case, the couple are UAE nationals, and violence is not an issue in the emirtes. So leavng him is not an option, because their families do not see violence as a crime.. They are married, so even if she wanted to leave, she has no where to go, because as i said, her family do not view this as something wrong. she needs a way to convince him to stop doing this..