Domestic Violence
Nov 6 2010, Husbands' Voice

Myth 1
Men should always respect women.

Fact: women are also human beings like us. They belong to same specie. We should treat them as we treat any other man.

Myth 2
Women are very soft & sensitive in nature. They are soft spoken, and.

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Husbands' Voice, Ahmedabad
It is a known fact that whenever there is an incidence of matrimonial dispute and husband and wife live separate, law forces husband to pay monthly living expense of...
made popular Nov 8 2010
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Incognito, Atlanta
Domestic violence is a chronic, prevalent problem worldwide and something that should be strongly condemned and prosecuted, and yet women (and some men) wind up killed...
made popular Oct 19 2010
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Incognito, Atlanta
It doesn’t take much to set off certain men, and when your culture and religion pretty much stipulate that you have the right to discipline the female members of...
made popular Oct 19 2010
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Incognito, Atlanta
So many barbaric traditions like honor killings and female genital mutilation (FMG) continue to occur amongst Arabs and some Africans because there are few if any laws...
made popular Oct 6 2010
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Incognito, Atlanta
In the acting business we often talk about type-casting, which is anathema to an actor who takes his/her career seriously. No-one wants to be typed as a ditsy blonde,...
made popular Sep 27 2010
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Stella Paul, Baga
Women in India’s Maharashtra state get a rare chance to play and dance – normally considered a social taboo – on the occasion of snake festival , locally known...
made popular Sep 15 2010
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Incognito, Atlanta
Domestic violence and abuse of women occurs all over the world. Although there are women who physically abuse men, the preponderance of domestic violence is against...
made popular Sep 14 2010
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John, Kampala
WHEN Owor Alele married a second wife last year, he did not buy another mattress. Instead, he decided to share the same three by six feet mattress with both women. Owor...
made popular Sep 17 2010
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Incognito, Atlanta
68 years of marriage ended in tragedy, when an 89-year-old woman was bludgeoned to death with a hammer, and her 90-year-old husband was sentenced to a little over 17...
made popular Sep 11 2010
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Monica, Columbia
Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Matt Barnes was arrested Wednesday on domestic violence charges, authorities said. The incident started at a home in the...
made popular Sep 9 2010
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Incognito, Atlanta
According to Egyptian cleric Sa’d Arafat, a man has every right to beat his wife, that is, with certain qualifications. He can’t pummel her in the face and...
made popular Sep 7 2010
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Agnimitra Ghosh, Kolkata
Bollywood is now making some wonderful movies. The directors and the producers are not looking their profit only, but they are doing some social service also. They are...
made popular Sep 6 2010
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Maggie, Las Vegas
An Ohio Grand Jury indicted Jeffrey York, 47, of Madison Township on 19 counts this past Friday, September 3, 2010. Included among the charges are gross sexual...
made popular Sep 6 2010
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Yuliana, Brasilia
A woman is killed in Brazil every two hours, according to the 2010 Map of Violence study prepared by the independent Sangari Institute and cited by O Globo...
made popular Jul 13 2010
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Monica, Columbia
Rodrigo Paniagua Jr. had rules for the pregnant mother of his two little girls: no makeup outside the house, no skirts, no drinks with friends — and, most of all, no...
made popular Jun 11 2010
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Virag Dhulia, Bangalore
Before getting into the real topic of the article, I would like to take liberty to ask readers to have a look at this video, “Dan Dennett: Cute, Sexy, Sweet, Funny”...
made popular Jun 2 2010
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Lucy Donald, Laptop
Abusive Relationships Millions of women and men are in abusive relationships. Some acknowledge this, some are unaware and some are unable to leave. Recognising the...
made popular Jun 1 2010
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View Point, Shimla
The UK government through DFID is to give Uganda 45 million condoms to avert 75,000 abortions and 250,000 unwanted pregnancies. Uganda has one of the highest maternal...
made popular May 25 2010
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Stella Paul, Baga
‘Hi, I am Varsha. 3 days after I was married, my husband beat me unconscious’. For an opening PTC, this is perhaps the most shocking line a reporter could come up...
made popular May 26 2010
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John, Kampala
The UK government through DFID is to give Uganda 45 million condoms to avert 75,000 abortions and 250,000 unwanted pregnancies. Uganda has one of the highest maternal...
made popular May 25 2010
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Virag Dhulia, Bangalore
In the last twelve years (1996 - 2008) 170,000 husbands have been claimed by rampant domestic violence against them. In a shocking revelation of suicide statistics for...
made popular May 24 2010
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Angela, Bogota
Murders increased by 16 percent in Colombia in 2009, compared with the previous year, the country’s chief medical examiner said on Tuesday. In Colombia, there were...
made popular May 5 2010
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Incognito, Atlanta
Tragically, domestic violence is a common occurrence across the globe, and the recipients of that abuse are usually women. Although there are documented cases of...
made popular Apr 19 2010
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Virag Dhulia, Bangalore
Marriage – the most controversial social institution – has always been at the center-stage of debates. However, of late, since the last decade, a new trend of...
made popular Apr 15 2010
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Virag Dhulia, Bangalore
Although cricket is NOT the official national game of India, it’s more than that. Indian kids, especially boys, grow up with it, identifying it as a part of their...
made popular Apr 3 2010
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Prassoon Suryadas, Austin, Texas
For general public Domestic Violence (DV) means a drunken guy beating his wife. If this is the only picture coming to your mind while talking about violence at home...
made popular Apr 3 2010
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Incognito, Atlanta
Cutting off a woman’s ears and nose seems to be the torture du jour for doing something that displeases a husband or his family. One of the most barbaric, violent...
made popular Apr 1 2010
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Prassoon Suryadas, Austin, Texas
India government is working on redefining century old rape law (though minor amendment in 1983) in order to include various other offences so as to cover crimes such as...
made popular Mar 29 2010
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Incognito, Atlanta
I must be a prostitute because I wear perfume in public. At least that’s what an advice programme, called IslamiQA, on England’s main Muslim television...
made popular Mar 27 2010
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Incognito, Atlanta
Anyone who beats his wife is nothing more than a wife-beater. No man has the right to beat a woman as if they were some kind of animal, and if they do, they should be...
made popular Mar 16 2010
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Kelly, Philadelphia
Most often performed by a girl’s mother, breast ironing attempts to rid young girls of the signs of puberty, producing a flat, nonsexual, childlike chest in the...
made popular Mar 10 2010
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Incognito, Atlanta
A 45-year-old Afghan refugee living in Australia since 2005, Soltan Ahmad Azizi, killed his 33-year-old wife, Marzieh Rahimi, mother of 5, by strangling her with her...
made popular Jan 28 2010
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Leena, Kolkata
Ever since the dowry law came into existence, the dowry-hungry in-laws are taking different routes to satiate their selfish and cruel cravings. As and when different...
made popular Jan 27 2010
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Incognito, Atlanta
What would possess a parent to put their child in a clothes dryer and turn it on. It happens often enough that you have to ask, why? Ignorance, stupidity or downright...
made popular Jan 8 2010
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Incognito, Atlanta
There is no excuse for violence against women, and yet it happens all over the world, in every economic, religious and social strata. But it seems that it occurs more...
made popular Dec 31 2009
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Incognito, Atlanta
After 11 years of marriage Geeta Aulakh, a young mother of 2, wanted out and for that she was viciously attacked, left dying on a London street, and later died from...
made popular Dec 14 2009
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Tumwesigye, Kampala
Uganda’s former army chief James Kazini has been killed at his girlfriend’s flat in the capital, Kampala. A BBC correspondent says Maj Gen Kazini died...
made popular Nov 11 2009
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Jayanth, Bangalore
Our Great Culture, Heritage and Family Values India is a country which cherishes its culture and heritage. This rich legacy is based on high moral and social values....
made popular Nov 6 2009
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Prassoon Suryadas, Austin, Texas
An elderly woman tortured and driven out of the house that her husband had built for her has found justice after a four-year court battle against her...
made popular Nov 6 2009