study on domestic violence
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The study is based on interviews with more than 24 000 women from rural and urban areas in 10 countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, Japan, Namibia, Peru, Samoa, Serbia and Montenegro, Thailand, and the United Republic of Tanzania.
The study finds that one quarter to one half of all women who had been physically assaulted by their partners said that they had suffered physical injuries as a direct result. The abused women were also twice as likely as non-abused women to have poor health and physical and mental problems, even if the violence occurred years before.
Although pregnancy is often thought of as a time when women should be protected, in most study locations, between 4% and 12% of women who had been pregnant reported being beaten during pregnancy. More than 90% of these women had been abused by the father of the unborn child and between one quarter and one half of them had been kicked or punched in the abdomen.
For policy makers, the greatest challenge is that abuse remains hidden. At least 20% of women reporting physical violence in the study had never told anyone before being interviewed. Despite the health consequences, very few women reported seeking help from formal services like health and police, or from individuals in positions of authority, preferring instead to reach out to friends, neighbours and family members. Those who did seek formal support tended to be the most severely abused.
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This makes you realize how bad off some women are. I can't imagine abusing someone like that.
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it makes me realise how lucky i am. my honey would never hit me
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in advanced nations like singapore women are no longer in an inferior position.
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lol yeah but some of them still get beat up so...
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man get beaten up or harassed too.
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but usually not in their own home...or is there something u'd like to share with us?
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i had a korean colleague who beats up her malay husband.
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im feeling sorry for your colleague why doesnt he just leave her? he's not forced to live with her, is he?
anyway...majority of the women i was talking abt cant leave their husbands cos they're financially dependent on them. most of them dont even have proper education. -
sorry the abuser was my colleague.
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Beaten during pregnancy!
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its not unusual really. Men getting violent
even siblings beat up each other so what's a wife? To me a wife is just legalised raping -
All the same, it hurts to be on the receiving end - especially since you're expecting protection, not assault, from the one you love. And rape isn't consensual.
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Time for a reverse takeover of society by child-bearers.
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ah? i hear KB is into BDSMOriginally posted by kikq:it makes me realise how lucky i am. my honey would never hit me -
lol ok, a lil correction...*he'd never hit me very hard
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it hurts so good
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Scary thing is, you need not look far
This forum has enough trolls and such who thinks women are to be dominated or treated like pure sex objects
They get obsessed with it
I seen enuff feisty ladies here who get trolled -
Your opinions are like dogs barking. We can do without them.Originally posted by laurence82:Scary thing is, you need not look far
This forum has enough trolls and such who thinks women are to be dominated or treated like pure sex objects
They get obsessed with it
I seen enuff feisty ladies here who get trolled -
and the trolls include you, mr paedophileOriginally posted by iveco:Your opinions are like dogs barking. We can do without them.
oh yeah, we got pedos in sgforums too...sick
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Let's not get started here, please. Thanks, gentlemen, for your understanding.
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When is trolling justified?
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A fight I see.
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Because it hit some raw nerves of some pedophiles who is aligned to those aforementioned dominating males?
Go check Rhonda's thread on singles and happily unattached
See who trolled there
These guys been dissing ladies who arent afraid to stand and say their piece of mind and treat women like pure sex objects
Relevant to this topic actually -
Gazelle has been at work again?Originally posted by laurence82:Because it hit some raw nerves of some pedophiles who is aligned to those aforementioned dominating males?
Go check Rhonda's thread on singles and happily unattached
See who trolled there
These guys been dissing ladies who arent afraid to stand and say their piece of mind and treat women like pure sex objects
Relevant to this topic actually