There are many stakeholders involved in this issue of sexual violence against wives. The stakeholders are wives, husbands, children and household members, politicians, social scientists, legal authorities, women and men as well as family advocacy organizations, government, medical providers, police, and many more society sectors that are influenced one way or another by this issue. The most immediate stakeholders of marital rape who are affected by it are wives, children, and criminal husbands
Effects of Marital Rape on Women: Main Stakeholder
Marital rape affects women in two major ways: physical and psychological. The physical effects of marital rape include “injuries to private organs, bruises, torn muscles, lacerations, fatigue, fractures …show more content…
Mother of the house would not have energy or the mindset to function properly at home neither to address the basic needs of her children nor to emotionally support them. Also there is no data available to know how much children of these households are affected by seeing, hearing, or feeling when the act of rape happens under their roof. Children might be as well aware of the violence happening in their homes by observing or hearing the act, which influence their mind and manifest itself in their behaviors as …show more content…
The stance of Indian government on the marital rape issue has been neutral. Government of India believes that marital rape has its roots in poverty, religious beliefs, and social and cultural values of Indian society. Therfore, without changing the culture of tolerance toward marital rape the issue can not be addressed. Yet the government does not provide any interventions in the communities to change men’s behavior for exampl one intervention that could be easily enforced by the government is sex education at schools. On the other hand the judicial system of India is reluctant to identify marital rape as a criminal offence. An attempt was taken by the Justice Verma’s committee that set up after the incident of a gang rape in Delhi that attracted international attention, recommended marital rape be criminalized in 2013 that was rejected
Effects of Marital Rape on Women: Main Stakeholder
Marital rape affects women in two major ways: physical and psychological. The physical effects of marital rape include “injuries to private organs, bruises, torn muscles, lacerations, fatigue, fractures …show more content…
Mother of the house would not have energy or the mindset to function properly at home neither to address the basic needs of her children nor to emotionally support them. Also there is no data available to know how much children of these households are affected by seeing, hearing, or feeling when the act of rape happens under their roof. Children might be as well aware of the violence happening in their homes by observing or hearing the act, which influence their mind and manifest itself in their behaviors as …show more content…
The stance of Indian government on the marital rape issue has been neutral. Government of India believes that marital rape has its roots in poverty, religious beliefs, and social and cultural values of Indian society. Therfore, without changing the culture of tolerance toward marital rape the issue can not be addressed. Yet the government does not provide any interventions in the communities to change men’s behavior for exampl one intervention that could be easily enforced by the government is sex education at schools. On the other hand the judicial system of India is reluctant to identify marital rape as a criminal offence. An attempt was taken by the Justice Verma’s committee that set up after the incident of a gang rape in Delhi that attracted international attention, recommended marital rape be criminalized in 2013 that was rejected