Violence
All of us are
aware that violence against women and their children is one of the most
pressing issues around the world. It is not new to the public to frequently
hear news about women and children getting physically, mentally, emotionally,
and even sexually abused. But what are the roots that cause these kinds of
happenings that have such huge impact on the society?
Since
it is a global problem, it’s just right for everyone to know the roots of this
kind of situation in order to prevent it from happening. According to Battered
Women’s Support Services (BWSS) Organization, violence against women is rooted
in unequal power relationships between men and women. In a much broader
context, structural relationships of inequalities in politics, religion, media
and discriminatory cultural norms perpetuate to this problem. Other roots are
dependent factors such as sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, class, and
the alike.
Starting with
the unequal power between men and women, this has started long ago with our
ancestors wherein only men had the rights to be rulers and stuff like that, the
right to vote, work, etc. In other words, men were ones who were always at the
top of the hierarchy. Fortunately, things have changed and women aren’t treated
so lowly or poorly anymore. Even though the society changed, some things
remained unchanged for others still aren’t treated equally and fairly. Mostly,
this root of the violence occurs between married couple, intimate partners, or
even with relatives and can happen at any time.
The
other factors like religion, ethnicity, class, and nationality are seen
differently than that of the first one. These factors depend on the people
around you whom can treat you unfairly or fairly depending on how they see
others. Take for example a city woman and a woman from an ethnic group. People
will likely treat the city woman and tribal woman differently based on who they
are, what they are, and where they come from.
In
a male-dominant society, male privilege becomes the norm of belief and
behaviour of men that they have the right to control women. In addition,
poverty, isolation from friends and family, language difficulties, and
homelessness also contribute to victimization of the most vulnerable women in
the society which is still according to BWSS Org. For instance, in a family
wherein the mother is a housewife, the father has a job, and they have kids. Due
to bankruptcy of the business where the dad works, he won’t have any more
salary to support his family and that he will get so frustrated that he might
hurt his wife or children.
Prevention
is better than cure, they say. Preventing is a much easier way to solve
problems so that fewer cases will happen in the near future. Even though it
should be quite effortless, it’s much harder than we think because people just
can’t avoid things like this or that seeing that these days people don’t know
how to have self-discipline. So to sum it all up, all of us should have
self-discipline and cooperate well with each other in order for us to handle
such issue for the sake of humanity. It’s because we were all made to have
equal rights and powers and not to abuse this power that He has given us.
Reference:
https://www.bwss.org/
https://www.bwss.org/
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