The February Contest#1 by sduttaskitchen|How can we overcome domestic violence?

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Hello intentional Steemians, it is a thing of joy that I am a part of this contest and I sincerely wish to extend my profound gratitudes to @sduttaskitchen for bringing up this timely topic on "How we can Overcome Domestic voilence" for discussion. The issue of domestic voilence is a growing concern in almost every part of the world. It is growing wild daily eating and demolishing families in the form of physical abuse, emotional blackmail, psychological trauma, financial issues etc.

Though many considers it to be a personal and private issue which is to be settled in the family level, Domestic voilence is something beyond this as its effect has migrated from the family level to the societal stage. It is based on this that I will be giving my candid thoughts on the following areas;

In other to grant Justice to this, I think that it is wise to have a little glance on the concept Domestic Voilence. Domestic Voilence can be defined as the different abuses, oppression, injustice, discrimination, partiality, unequal treatments that occurs in our various families. It could take place between the father and the mother, parents and their child(ren), among siblings and even people in relationship.

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As stated earlier, Domestic Voilence could take the form of physical abuse where parents beat their children beyond limit or where spouses fight with each other. It could also take the form of psychological stress especially in homes where members of the family finds delight in comparing their children to third parties. Having known what Domestic Voilence entails, here are some tips to avoid Domestic Voilence

One of the reasons why domestic voilence prevails in different homes is the fact that members of the family may not know to what extent they should advance into each other without stepping on their toes. Spelling out boundaries would enable the children to know to what extent they should behave (I.e the DOs and DONTs) and likewise every other members of the family.

I coined this to refer to an avenue where every members of the family comes together to share ideas, food, drinks, achievements, opportunities, and every other thing that would bring growth happiness together. This kind of gathering ensures that every members of the family are carried along and love will become a watch word on every members lips. This formula is an essential tip in the war against Domestic Voilence.

It is a fact that children will always hold to what their teachers tells them during their early stage of life. With this, if Domestic Voilence is introduced into the primary curriculum, children will be taught on the dangers associated with it, how to avoid it and how to deal with it. This would help to create a generation that is domestic voilence free.

The Government should not consider domestic voilence as a personal situation or a private matter that is to be resolved at the family level. Rather policies and rules should be made on defaulters so as to serve as a deterrent. Also, to avoid many defaulters, seminars, webinars, conferences, and workshops should be organized and experts should be brought to address the isuue.

One of the many reasons members of the family go into domestic voilence is the issue of finance. Because, the inability of the family to take care of their children in most cases leads to rebellion. The rebellious children will always be tamed in a hard way as such, promoting domestic voilence. To Carter for this, members of the family should strive in ensuring that financial stability is reached and members of the family are fully taken care of.

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Hmmm, it is very difficult to point out the main reason behind domestic voilence as this menace differs in culture, forms, geographical area, as well as consequences. With this, one could only point out to certain reasons behind Domestic Voilence and pointing out the main would be difficult. The following are possible causes of Domestic Voilence

Lack of adequate knowledge on the effects and consequences of domestic voilence. It is pathetic to mention that many do not even know what domestic voilence is talk more of getting to know it's consequences.

The lack of understanding and love in the family is another factor promoting domestic voilence in the family. This is true since the lack of understanding would always promote nagging, complaining and even bullying which in turn promotes domestic voilence.

Many domestic voilence is always as a result of the father wanting to bring everyone under his laws while he does his thing differently since he is the head of the family. When this happens, there's bond to be indifferences and domestic voilence is likely to play.

The lack of financial stability leading to the inability of the parents to take care of the needs of children and peer group influence are another promoters of domestic voilence.

In my opinion, the phrase "Charity begins at home" connotes the panacea to domestic voilence. This is true since members of the family are the components of the society. In essence, if a child is well groomed, and members of the family are well fashioned at the home level, there's no doubt that the society will be filled with rational beings warring against domestic voilence. Going by this, the very first steps in eliminating domestic voilence is to ensure that we practice it at home. Also,parents should always expose their children to the dangers involved while they themselves ensures that they do not promote domestic voilence in anyway.

The relationship between domestic voilence and youths can be compared to a snowball falling from a height. The snowball will continue to become bigger until it makes contact with an interference. This interference has the tendency of breaking the snowball into tiny pieces again. In relationship to Youths and Domestic Voilence, it is true that youths are highly experimental group of people who love to experiment the things they see.
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Therefore, youths will continue to grow bigger and deeper in appreciating Domestic Voilence until there's an interference such as a workshop on domestic voilence or the likes. In essence, a youth who is always exposed to Domestic Voilence may likely end up practicing same and those who have been exposed to Domestic Voilence are always depressed, isolated and sometimes may have suicidal thoughts. The following are some of the effects of Domestic Voilence on Youth's

1. Depression: Here, the feelings of not being important, being humiliated and not being valued sets in whenever youths are victims of Domestic Voilence. Such a youth may become timid and unable to associate with peers due to Depression.

2. Suicide: Suicidal thoughts is always the end product of Domestic Voilence. Here, after series of continuous depression, the youth may thing that his/her worth on earth is useless and suicide may turn up to be the best option.

3. Domestic Voilence may as well make youths to become irresponsible, reckless and careless. This arise from the fact that, if a youth lives with parents who fights very often, such a youth may likely think that fighting is a normal thing and may be forced to practice same with siblings, peers, and even with spouse.

Let me call it a wrap as I invite the following persons to bring in their contributions on how we could create a permanent panacea to Domestic Voilence.