Domestic violence plagues India

The 21st century has witnessed a tremendous increase in crimes against women. One such crime is domestic violence. Women across the world, especially in India, have to go through a lot to become the symbol of modernity. Some men started feeling that their wives were neglecting the household and started being violent toward them. This was just one type of domestic violence.

Can anyone imagine how many women undergo such violence in a country which has over a billion people? The Dowry Prohibition Act in 1961(India), which made the act of giving and receiving dowry a crime, prohibits the practice of dowry. But even today people in remote parts of India carry out this practice.

Domestic violence includes physical, emotional and sexual violence of any form. A developing nation grows with time and so does its crime rate.

According to an article in the online Indian news site,The Wire 2015, a new research has shown that one in 10 child deaths under the age of one can be attributed to domestic violence against the mother during the marriage.

Domestic violence needs to be reduced for the country’s progress. Women must not be quiet about this kind of behaviour or any kind of violence that they are subjected to in their homes. Rather, they should respond to this wisely and boldly.

Girls should be taught to become independent both financially and emotionally. Today, schools promote self-defence classes like karate, taekwondo and more which is useful, especially for girls, in order to boost their confidence and train them for any circumstances.

It is the silence of women which makes them vulnerable to violence. Therefore no nation can claim its progress unless its women are safe and enjoy equal freedom as the men do.