oral soft tissues injuries, homicide). 1
Physical abuses include sexual abuses such as forcing wife to sexual intercourse, coercing (forcing) sexual acts and marital rape; it results in unintended pregnancies, abortions, adverse pregnancy outcomes (such as low birth weight or perinatal death, maternal morbidity or even mortality) and sexually transmitted diseases.1 Psychological abuses include verbal abuses, criticizing wife at public in a humiliating way and threatening behaviours (throwing things, threatening with a fist, threatening to injure the children, threatening with a weapon, threatening with divorce or remarriage). The controlling behaviours include shouting or yelling at her, criticizing her in public, restricting her …show more content…
This area of their personality may serve them to justify their violence toward their wives. Abusers, commonly exert controlling behaviours, are usually jealousy and tend to accuse their partners of flirting or extramarital sexual acts. This may be due to their poor self-esteem; on the other hand, he ‘learned’ that emotional abuse and physical violence get him what he wants.
Causes and risk factors of domestic violence
In Table 2, we list the possible causes and risk factors for occurrence of DV. In DV studies, there is an overlap between concepts of cause and risk factor, but in this article they are taken with the same significance. In the presence of the risk factors or susceptibility to DV, very minor or ‘absurd’ things can trigger an immediate violent episode, e.g. talking back, not having food ready on time, refusal of sex or suspicious behaviours (Table 3). We notice that there is an overlap between some triggering and risk factors. Age is a known risk factor for DV, with young women are more susceptible to assaults. In a study by the first author (AMA), the high gap in wife-husband age was found more significant than absolute wife’s age as a determinant of
Physical abuses include sexual abuses such as forcing wife to sexual intercourse, coercing (forcing) sexual acts and marital rape; it results in unintended pregnancies, abortions, adverse pregnancy outcomes (such as low birth weight or perinatal death, maternal morbidity or even mortality) and sexually transmitted diseases.1 Psychological abuses include verbal abuses, criticizing wife at public in a humiliating way and threatening behaviours (throwing things, threatening with a fist, threatening to injure the children, threatening with a weapon, threatening with divorce or remarriage). The controlling behaviours include shouting or yelling at her, criticizing her in public, restricting her …show more content…
This area of their personality may serve them to justify their violence toward their wives. Abusers, commonly exert controlling behaviours, are usually jealousy and tend to accuse their partners of flirting or extramarital sexual acts. This may be due to their poor self-esteem; on the other hand, he ‘learned’ that emotional abuse and physical violence get him what he wants.
Causes and risk factors of domestic violence
In Table 2, we list the possible causes and risk factors for occurrence of DV. In DV studies, there is an overlap between concepts of cause and risk factor, but in this article they are taken with the same significance. In the presence of the risk factors or susceptibility to DV, very minor or ‘absurd’ things can trigger an immediate violent episode, e.g. talking back, not having food ready on time, refusal of sex or suspicious behaviours (Table 3). We notice that there is an overlap between some triggering and risk factors. Age is a known risk factor for DV, with young women are more susceptible to assaults. In a study by the first author (AMA), the high gap in wife-husband age was found more significant than absolute wife’s age as a determinant of